Black Comedy Volume of The Complete Works of Shakespeare contains five works: The Merchant of Venice, As You Like It, Troilus And Cressida, All’s Well That Ends Well, Mesure For Measure. The merchant of Venice is an important early work of Shakespeare. It is a comedy with great satire. The whole play is well structured, exciting and dramatic, and the plot is gradually pushed to the climax.It is one of Shakespeare’s best comedies. The whole play has two plot lines, one is the national and religious contradictions between the Venice merchant Anthony and the usurer Jew Shylock. The other is choosing marriage by selecting the colorful box. The beautiful and rich maiden Boxixia sighed that her whole life must depend on the colorful box set by her father. Whoever chose the box would be her husband. As you like it is one of Shakespeare’s "four great comedies", set in the remote arden forest. The main plot describes the exiled duke’s daughter Roslin seeking for her father and her love story in the forest. The title of the play, as you like it, shows that all the good people who were persecuted in the play were rewarded, the bad people were influenced, and the lovers got married. Troilus and Cressida is one of Shakespeare’s tragedies. The play is based on Homer’s Iliad and medieval legend. It tells two stories: one is the story of the famous Trojan war in ancient history; The second is the love story between Troilus and Cressida in the background of the Trojan war. "All’s well that ends well" is Shakespeare’s second period work, tells the story of how Helena, a beautiful and talented heroine, goes to great trouble to win the love of Bertram, a rich, conceited and superficial man of noble birth, and finally gets what she wants. "As you ask for it" is about love and marriage, but it highlights folly and the dark side of society, so it not only echoes the tragedy of the same period, but also corresponds to the romantic mood of the play with comedy or biting satire.
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