heroines in Shakespeare's comedies are independent in character and very frank.They are no longer controlled by their parents or husbands.They are of a new type.They are witty,bold,loving laughing and faithful.They are happy and make others happy.They carry their destinies in their own hands.Shakespeare's comedies are imbued with bourgeois ideas and show progressive significance. 2.0 His great Tragedies Hamlet,Othello,King Lear:and Macbeth are Shakespeares great tragedies.They are associated with a period of gloom and sorrow in his life.During this period,England witnessed a general unrest,and social contradictions became very sharp.All of these plays express a profound dissatisfaction with life.They show the struggle and conflicts between good and evil of the tune,between justice and injustice.In these plays,the writer Shakespeare condemns the dark and evil society. 3.0 Historical Plays 5 Shakespeare's historical plays are political plays.The principal idea of these plays is the necessity for national unity under one sovereign. Shakespeare's historical plays reflect the historical events oftwo centuries from Richard II to Henry VIII.They show the horrors of civil war,the necessity for national unity,the responsibilities of heroines in Shakespeare's comedies are independent in character and very frank. They are no longer controlled by their parents or husbands. They are of a new type. They are witty, bold, loving, laughing and faithful. They are happy and make others happy. They carry their destinies in their own hands. Shakespeare's comedies are imbued with bourgeois ideas and show progressive significance. 2.0 His great Tragedies Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth are Shakespeare's great tragedies. They are associated with a period of gloom and sorrow in his life. During this period, England witnessed a general unrest, and social contradictions became very sharp. All of these plays express a profound dissatisfaction with life. They show the struggle and conflicts between good and evil of the tune, between justice and injustice. In these plays, the writer Shakespeare condemns the dark and evil society. 3.0 Historical Plays Shakespeare's historical plays are political plays. The principal idea of these plays is the necessity for national unity under one sovereign. Shakespeare's historical plays reflect the historical events of two centuries from RichardⅡ to Henry VIII. They show the horrors of civil war, the necessity for national unity, the responsibilities of 5’ 5’