How are Shakespeare's plays classified?
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William Shakespeare's plays are usually categorised as Comedies, Histories and Tragedies.

Comedies:

All's Well That Ends Well

As You Like It

The Comedy of Errors

Cymbeline

Love's Labour's Lost

Measure for Measure

The Merchant of Venice

The Merry Wives of Windsor

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Much Ado About Nothing

Pericles, Prince of Tyre

The Taming of the Shrew

The Tempest

Twelfth Night

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

The Two Noble Kinsmen

The Winter's Tale

Histories

King John

Richard II

Henry IV, part 1

Henry IV, part 2

Henry V

Henry VI, part 1

Henry VI, part 2

Henry VI, part 3

Richard III

Henry VIII

Tragedies

Romeo and Juliet

Coriolanus

Titus Andronicus

Timon of Athens

Julius Caesar

Macbeth

Hamlet

Troilus and Cressida

King Lear

Othello

Antony and Cleopatra.

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