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SHAKESPEARE’S ROMANCES
1 Shakespeare’s late comedies--including Cymbeline, The Tempest and The Winter’s Tale--are classified as romances. They are based on a tradition of romantic literature going back at least to ancient Greece, in which the central theme of love serves as the trigger for extraordinary adventures. Love is subjected to abnormal strains, often involving separation, jealousy, and other elements of tragedy. There are also fantastic journeys to exotic lands, and absurd coincidences and mistaken identities that complicate the plot, but everything is resolved in the traditional happy ending of comedy.
2 All of Shakespeare’s romances share a number of these classical themes, such as the theme of separation and reunion of loved ones, particularly family members. Daughters are separated from parents, and wives from husbands, in Cymbeline and The Winter’s Tale. Sons are separated from fathers in The Winter’s Tale and T
A. The main theme of love provides the characters with remarkable adventures in strange lands.
B. The romances involve many elements of tragedy but have the traditional happy ending of comedy.
C. Shakespeare’s romances are less well known than his comedies, tragedies, and history plays.
D. Cymbeline, The Tempest and The Winter’s Tale are examples of Shakespeare’s romances.
E. In many of the plays, love is subjected to jealousy and separation but ultimately to resolution and reunion.
F. The romances often feature shipwrecks that separate characters.
