Tags: Genre, Music Genre, Topical Concept.

In the First Folio the plays of William Shakespeare were grouped into three categories: comedies histories and tragedies though today many scholars recognize a fourth category romance to describe the specific types of comedies that appear as Shakespeare’s later works.Comedy in its Elizabethan usage had a very different meaning from modern comedy.

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