From: jwkenne@attglobal.net   
      
   On 2014-11-29 23:38:17 +0000, Brian M. Scott said:   
      
   > On Sat, 29 Nov 2014 18:25:00 -0500, William Vetter   
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   > rec.arts.sf.composition:   
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   >> Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) wrote :   
   >   
   >>> On 11/29/14, 4:54 PM, William Vetter wrote:   
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   > [...]   
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   >>>> Do you think _Romeo and Juliet_ sucks?   
   >   
   >>> Yep. As RAH said, "Even the immortal Will had his   
   >>> off-days."   
   >   
   >> Unless I'm mistaken, he wrote more tradgedies than   
   >> comedies.   
   >   
   > Nope: 12 tragedies, 11 histories, 13 comedies, and ‘The   
   > Tempest’, which I consider none of the above, though it has   
   > been listed as a comedy.   
      
   “The Tempest”, along with “The Winter’s Tale”, “Pericles”,   
   “The Two   
   Noble Kinsmen”, and “Cymbeline”, are usually put into the fourth   
   category of “romances”, nowadays. “Cardenio” would fit into that group,   
   too.   
      
   “Romeo & Juliet” is a bad example to work from; it’s structured as a   
   rom-com with a twist ending. “King Lear”, “Hamlet”, “Othello”,   
   “Timon   
   of Athens”, “Titus Andronicus” (yes, “Titus Andronicus”),   
   “Hamlet”,   
   “Troilus & Cressida”—plus some plays that could also be regarded as   
   histories, such as the two Richards and the Scottish play—those are the   
   tragedies.   
      
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