How Shakespeare developed as a writer of comedies
The works of William Shakespeare are read, studied and performed throughout the world. No writer of any country or age has ever been so universally popular. Also no writer has been so praised. ... The First Comedy, The Taming Of The Shrew, was a plot from an older play that Shakespeare re-wrote. ... After that he wrote plays that depended on the characterization (An Introduction to Shakespeare 45). In Shakespeare’s later plays he started to give his characters dimension and depth. ... In Shakespeare’s play The Merchant of Venice the use of poetry allows the audience to see settings and scenery that weren’t there. The audience listened to Shakespeare’s poetic language and entered a moonlight scene at four o’clock in the afternoon.