... on a love story. Works of the master of both tragedy and comedy William Shakespeare can illustrate this proximity of the tragic and the comic. Let us look at his "Romeo and Juliet- and "Much Ado about Nothing,"" a tragedy and a comedy, respectively, to see the similar literary devices used by Shakespeare in two ... genres, which are considered to be the exact opposite of each other. Both "Romeo and Juliet- and "Much Ado about Nothing- tell the audience about love stories that ... ignore the reasons that keep them apart, comic reasons in the comedy, and tragic in the tragedy. The disguise...

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