Shakespearean Comedies, including: The Merchant Of Venice, Cymbeline, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Measure For Measure, All's Well That Ends Well, The ... The Merry Wives Of Windsor, Twelfth Night

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More info: In the First Folio, the plays of William Shakespeare were grouped into three categories: comedies, histories, and tragedies. "Comedy", in its Elizabethan usage, had a very different meaning from modern comedy. A Shakespearean comedy is one that has a happy ending, usually involving marriages between the unmarried characters, and a tone and style that is more light-hearted than Shakespeare's other plays. Patterns in the comedies include movement to a "green world", both internal and external conflicts, and a tension between Apollonian and Dionysian values. Shakespearean comedies tend to also include: * A struggle of young lovers to overcome difficulty, often presented by elders * Deception among characters (especially mistaken identity) * Tension between characters, often within a family * Use of all styles of comedy (slapstick, puns, dry humor, earthy humor, witty banter, practical jokes) * Happy Ending, though this is a given, since by definition, anything without a happy ending can't be a comedy