Book Review People like to put things into categories. Movie critics do so with films: slasher,buddy,western, war, and more. You can do the same with books: science fiction, gothic romance and so on. Shakespeare's plays also have categories: tragedies, comedies, and histories. But these terms don't mean exactly what you may think they mean. Shakespeare's most famous plays are his tragedies, such as Hamlet. These plays follow the standard rules for tragedies: The …showed first 75 words of 333 total…

…showed last 75 words of 333 total…he knows it. His arrogance and conceit affect all around him and drive away those who would be his friends. In the end, you almost cheer when they conspire against him and he gets his due. In other words, Shakespeare felt free to break the rules whenever he felt like it. After all, his audience didn't care whether the plays followed the rules, and Shakespeare wrote to make his audience happy, not writers and authors