this is shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice but as a "tragicomedy".

1. BY: student of FYBA
ssp
William shakespeare

2.  Tragicomedy is half tragedy and half comedy
mingled together.
 It is distinct from tragedy that contains comic
relief and from comedy that has tragic
background.
 Tragicomedy means a play containing a number
of tragic elements and a number of comic
elements.
 According to the scholars , the serious elements
of tragedy indicates that shakespeare had
actually wanted to write a tragic play but than he
changed his mind in the course of his writing the
play.

3.  “the merchant of
venice” is written by
william shakespeare
in probably 1596 or
1598.
 It is considered as
one of the most
popular
tragicomedy.

5.  The merchant of venice
is undoubtedly a
comedy.
 The play is classed as
one of the 16 comedy
plays .
 A comedy is a drama or
literary work , that is
light and often humorous
or satirical in tone and it
usually contains a happy
resolution of the
thematic conflict.

6.  A tragedy is a drama or
literary work in which
the protagonist is
brought to ruin or
suffers sorrow.
 especially as a
consequence of tragic
flaw or moral
weakness.

7.  A tragicomedy is a fictional work that blends
aspects of the genres tragedy and comedy.
 In shakespeare’s time a tragicomedy referred
to a serious play with a happy ending or
enough jokes through the play to lighten the
mood.
 The merchant of venice by william
shakespeare a tragicomedy as both tragedy
and comedy can be seen throughout the play.

8.  Comedy refers to any discourse or work
generally intended to be humorous or to
amuse by inducing laughter,or in its simplest
form comedy is a story with a happy ending.
Looking at the merchant of venice, through
the above definitions we find that it can be
classified as both a tragedy and comedy.

9.  In many ways, the play
has a happy ending :
bassanio ends up with
potia, and antonio not
only escapes his
gruesome fate,in fact
he is still rich.
 By all accounts, that’s
classic comedic
ending: guy gets the
girl, nobody is poor
and everyone’s having
good time.

10.  The bond it self is
potentially tragic.
 The clause about the
pound of flesh is
certainly with
dangerous
possiblities.
 This serious
elements of the play
makes critics think
that the play was
designed tragically
by the author.