Crash Course Theater and Drama
Shakespeare's Tragedies and an Acting Lesson
S1 • E15 May 25, 2018 15m
Shakespeare's tragedies...were tragic. But they had some jokes. They also changed the way tragedies were written. Characters like Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear had tragic outcomes, but they were sympathetic characters in a lot of ways. This was a big change from the way Seneca and the Greeks wrote tragedies, and it caught on.
