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   John W Kennedy used his keyboard to write :   
   > On 2014-12-04 22:13:19 +0000, William Vetter said:   
   >   
   >> Brian M. Scott presented the following explanation :   
   >>> On Sat, 29 Nov 2014 18:25:00 -0500, William Vetter   
   >>>  wrote in   
   >>>  in   
   >>> rec.arts.sf.composition:   
   >>>   
   >>>> Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) wrote :   
   >>>   
   >>>>> On 11/29/14, 4:54 PM, William Vetter wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> [...]   
   >>>   
   >>>>>> 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   
   >>   
   >> I looked this up.  It seems there are 18 comedies, and 10 each of the   
   >> others, although I think that all histories except Henry IV have sad   
   >> endings.  So happy vs. sad endings are about aaaaequal.   
   >   
   > Unquestioned comedies:   
   >  1. As You Like It   
   >  2. The Comedy of Errors   
   >  3. Love's Labor's Lost   
   >  4. The Merchant of Venice   
   >  5. The Merry Wives of Windsor   
   >  6. A Midsummer Night's Dream   
   >  7. Much Ado about Nothing   
   >  8. The Taming of the Shrew   
   >  9. The Two Gentlemen of Verona   
   > 10. Twelfth Night   
   >   
   > Unquestioned tragedies:   
   >  1. Antony and Cleopatra   
   >  2. Coriolanus   
   >  3. Hamlet   
   >  4. Julius Caesar   
   >  5. King Lear   
   >  6. Macbeth   
   >  7. Othello   
   >  8. Romeo and Juliet   
   >  9. Titus Andronicus§   
   > 10. Troilus and Cressida   
   >   
   > Histories:   
   >  1. King John   
   >  2. Edward III*†   
   >  3. Richard II   
   >  4. Henry IV part 1   
   >  5. Henry IV part 2   
   >  6. Henry V   
   >  7. Henry VI part 1   
   >  8. Henry VI part 2   
   >  9. Henry VI part 3   
   > 10. Richard III   
   > 11. Henry VIII§   
   > 12. Sir Thomas More*†   
   >   
   > Usually classed as "Romances":   
   >  1. Cardenio§†‡   
   >  2. Cymbeline   
   >  3. Pericles§†   
   >  4. The Tempest   
   >  5. The Two Noble Kinsmen§†   
   >  6. The Winter's Tale   
   >   
   > "Problem plays":   
   >  1. All's Well that Ends Well   
   >  2. Measure for Measure   
   >  3. Timon of Athens   
   >   
   > Total: 41   
   >   
   > * Mostly not Shakespeare   
   > § Only about half Shakespeare   
   > † Not in the First Folio   
   > ‡ Attested, but lost. Probably survives in part in Lewis Theobald's   
   >   "Double Falshood" of 1727   
   >   
   > The histories are about an even mix of happy endings, tragic endings, and in   
   > between.   
      
   Thank you for an interesting list.  Looking around internet, I found a   
   variety of lists.  Most of them add Romances & Problem Plays to   
   Comedies.   
      
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