Shakespearean comedies are characterized by having happy endings, involving marriages, taking place in imaginary countries, and featuring true characters. They use puns and mistaken identities as common plot devices. The document then lists Shakespeare's comedies and provides some key details about Twelfth Night, such as it being set during Twelfth Night's entertainment and involving mistaken identity through the character of Viola disguising herself as Cesario.

1. Shakespearean comediesKadi Kolkform XIA

2. The plays in First Folio: historiestragediescomediesShakespearean comedy:written in Iambic pentameterhappy endinginvolving marriagescheerfulimaginary countrytrue characters “green world’’strain between Dionysian and Apollonian values

3. Comedy subjects:A struggle of old hatersSeparation and re-unificationMistaken identitiesA clever servantHeightened tensionsOne plotFrequent punning

4. In Shakespeare’s comedies we can notice:ForeshadowingForebodinghuman faults and mistakes:lack of generosityinability to share in the pleasures of otherscombination of tragedy and humouruse of the lower class

5. Shakespeare’s comediesAll's Well That Ends WellAs You Like ItComedy of ErrorsCymbelineLove's Labour's LostMeasure for MeasureMerchant of VeniceMerry Wives of WindsorMidsummer Night's DreamMuch Ado About NothingTaming of the ShrewTempestTroilus and CressidaTwelfth NightTwo Gentlemen of VeronaWinter's TalePericles, Prince of Tyre(not included in the First Folio)The Two Noble Kinsmen(not included in the First Folio)

6. Twelfth Nightwritten in1600-01Twelfth Night's entertainmentmistaken identityThe main characters:Lady OliviaOrsinoViola as Cesario

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