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SHAKESPEARE'S WRITING By Alex Garcia, Ethan Frank, and Colin White

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PLAYS Shakespeares plays are traditionally divided into the three categories of the First Folio: comedies, histories, and tragedies. The plays within each grouping vary widely. Among the comedies, for example, one can find sunny works filled with the banter of witty lovers; hilariously complicated farces; and darker, more sober plays such as The Tempest(Folger).

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COMEDY PLAYS All's Well That Ends Well As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Cymbeline Love's Labours Lost A Midsummer Night's Dream

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SONNETS Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date. Sonnet 18, lines 14 When my love swears that she is made of truth I do believe her though I know she lies Sonnet 138, lines 12

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SHAKESPEARE'S WRITING He wrote 884,647 words in his whole writing career, and 118,406 lines. He wrote 38 plays in his whole career. His longest play was Hamlet, it was 4,042 lines. His shortest play was The Comedy of Errors with 1,787 lines.

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HIS WORDS Some examples of words he created while writing his poems and plays. Schoolboy Addiction Amazement Rival Useful

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WORDS CONTINUED Madcap Flowery Spectacled Pedant Gentlefolk Fathomless Lackluster

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TRAGEDIES Most of what Shakespeare wrote were tragedies, his tragedies were his basically his personal experiences he encountered throughout his life. Hamlet Julius Cesar

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WORKS CITED Floger Shakespeare Library. Discover Shakespeare. Mimi Godfrey, 2005. Web. 25 April 2013.