The life and creative activity of William Shakespeare Plan: The life and work of William Shakespeare

Buffoonery in Shakespearean Comedy

Buffoonery is another feature of Shakespearean comedy. Every single comedy of Shakespeare has got a fool or a clown, who provides humour in the play. Fool is a special kind of character in a typical Shakespearean comedy, who has got the gift of gab. They are witty and they know how to reply a person during an argument. They speak in such a way that they are able to get the better of people. Shakespeare uses them to create fun, humour and laughter in his comedies. They are very much like jokers and jesters, who amuse people through their witty and funny remarks. One of the best purposes of using clowns in comedies is that they act as a messenger and mediator between various characters. We observe in The Merchant of Venice that the clown is used to exchange messages between the lovers, i.e., Lorenzo and Jessica. Thus, we have Feste in Twelfth Nigh, Launcelot in The Merchant of Venice and Touchstone in As You Like It.
All of Shakespearean comedies end on a happy note. It is pertinent to mention here that most of the Shakespearean comedies end in marriage. In the end main characters got married to their beloved. In Twelfth Night, you might have observed that Duke Orsino marries Viola and Olivia marries Sebastian. Similarly, The Merchant of Venice also ends on a happy note. Antonio is saved from giving one pound flesh of his body to Shylock. Thus, every Shakespearean comedy ends happily and the issues are resolved.


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All Shakespeare’s history tragedies, with the exception of Romeo and Juliet, were written during the reign of Elizabeth. Although their material derives from the English chroniclers Hall and Holinshed they may have been generated in part by a surge of interest in historiography that centred on critical rereadings of Tacitus. It is a moment of politic history that can be located about the time of the composition of Marlowe’s translation of Lucan’s Pharsalia and the publication of Sir Henry Savile’s translation of Tacitus’ Histories in 1591, printed with an epistle that, according to Jonson, was written by the Earl of Essex himself. Marlowe’s translation is significant because Lucan took a very sceptical view of Julius Caesar’s imperial ambitions. Tacitus’ view of history was likewise quizzical and secular: his emperors were, unlike Shakespeare’s monarchs, scarcely possessed of a mystic as well as a natural body, and his great themes were ancient liberty, and what his translator, almost certainly invoking Tamburlaine, called ‘higher aspiring minds’, corruption, and modern servitude.
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