Following are the characteristics of Shakespearean comedy

Following are the characteristics of Shakespearean comedy:

1. Shakespearean comedy is a Romantic comedy.

2. It grew out of national tastes and traditions; the dramatist does not care for any rules of literary creation, but writes according to the dictates of his fancy.

3. The three unities are carelessly thrown to the winds. There is a free mingling of the comic and the tragic, the serious and the gay, for Shakespeare instinctively realized that life is a mingled yarn of joys and sorrows, and it would be unnatural to separate them.

4. Its aim is not corrective, or satiric, but innocent, good natured laughter. We laugh people and not at them.

5. The way of it is that of imagination rather than that of pure reason. It is an artist’s vision, not a critic’s exposition.”