Comedies in Shakespeare's time started out in chaos and ended with every one living happily ever after, such is that case in The Merchant of Venice. Comedy is a work that follows a "rhythm" wherein love is held to be the supreme experience of humanness, and in which "villains" are tricked and the purpose of that is to teach the villain the error of his ways and get him to repent and bring him back into society. It is important to have forgiveness in the comedy. Comedy doesn't kill it forgives. ... We are left with one of the most original literary creations of Shakespeare or of an...

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There were three types of plays in 1590, comedy, historical plays, and tragedy. ... Anders took aspects of comedy from the greatest clown of the sixteenth century, Will Kempe. ... Anders asserted these techniques of comedy into Shakespeare's, Love's labor Lost (c.1590), The Comedy of Errors (c.1592), The Two Gentlemen of Verona (c.1594), etc. ...

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The Indian film industry has drawn heavily on Shakespeare as seen in movies like Angoor, where the plot is drawn almost entirely from "A Comedy of Errors" and Omkara, an adaptation of Othello. ... In particular, it was Shakespeare's ability to effortlessly mingle comedy with tragedy that led to his fame, and what makes his works invaluable even today. ...

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