Which kind of play is Twelfth Night?

A.
a tragedy

B.
a comedy

C.
a romance

D.
a history

Question

Which kind of play is Twelfth Night?
 
 A.
a tragedy
 
 B.
a comedy
 
 C.
a romance
 
 D.
a history

anonymous · Answer

B. a comedy

anonymous · Answer

FULL TITLE ·  Twelfth Night, or What You Will

AUTHOR · William Shakespeare

TYPE OF WORK · Play

GENRE · Comedy

LANGUAGE  · English

TIME AND PLACE WRITTEN · Between 1600 and 1602, England

DATE OF FIRST PUBLICATION  ·  1623, in the First Folio

PUBLISHER  · Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount

TONE  · Light, cheerful, comic; occasionally frantic and melodramatic, especially in the speeches of Orsino and Olivia