For one thing the plots of his comedies are not original; he did not invent them but borrowed them indifferently from English or foreign sources.
While in the great tragedies action issues out of character and develops naturally without being forced or twisted, there is no such logical development of plot in the comedies. There is much that superfluous, ridiculous, shapeless grotesque and artificial. Much is improbable, unconvincing and absurd. Too much depends on Chance or Fortune. Deceits, disguises, mistaken identities and cross-purposes are the stock devices used by the dramatist to maintain suspense and prolong the interest.