Greek tragedy
The plays Shakespeare wrote with are traditionally divided into Histories, Comedies and Tragedies. His favourite genre of poetry was the sonnet.
William Shakespeare wrote 38 plays. They are divided into comedies, histories and tragedies. See the related question for a full list of his plays.
Ten of Shakespeare's plays are categorized as histories.
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If we divide Shakespeare's plays into comedies, histories and tragedies, the comedies outnumber the others almost two to one. There are ten histories and ten tragedies and eighteen comedies.
Greek tragedy
The plays Shakespeare wrote with are traditionally divided into Histories, Comedies and Tragedies. His favourite genre of poetry was the sonnet.
Since you are asking this in the category 'Shakespeare': he wrote tragedies (10), histories (10), romances (5) and comedies (13).
William Shakespeare wrote 38 plays. They are divided into comedies, histories and tragedies. See the related question for a full list of his plays.
Ten of Shakespeare's plays are categorized as histories.
cause he said he wanted to
For the theatre, Shakespeare wrote comedies, tragedies, and histories. He also wrote poetry, including a famous series OS sonnets.
Shakespeare wrote As You Like It and Merchant of Venice.
You might think that William Shakespeare mainly wrote tragedies because he is most famous for his tragedies, but actually he wrote almost twice as many comedies (18) as tragedies (10) and histories (10).
Mainly he wrote tragedies, but he also wrote comedies.
When the First Folio was published in 1623, the plays were divided into Histories, Comedies and Tragedies. The histories were plays drawn from the chronicles of English history. The tragedies were plays where the main character (and usually a lot more) end up dead at the end. The rest were called comedies. Later scholars think that the late comedies Pericles, The Winter's Tale, The Tempest and Cymbeline with their darker themes (not unlike the "tragicomedies" being written by Beaumont and Fletcher at the time) and stories of the reunification of shattered families formed a group, which are called "Romances".