Shakespeare A to Z | Humor in Shakespeare’s Plays
Shakespeare was a tremendously innovative playwright, and even though the humor that was so much a part of his talent is most evident in his comedies, it is a key element in all of his plays. In fact some of Shakespeare’s most entertaining scenes and characters are found in tragedies such as Hamlet and in histories such as Henry IV, Part 1.
INFLUENCES. Among the earlier writers whose work influenced Shakespeare’s humor was Titus Maccius Plautus, an ancient Roman dramatist.
Shakespeare was especially influenced by Plautus’s use of informal language, puns, and...
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