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Thank you We sneak Shakespeare's hamlet come in john Alas

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How does hamlet fallen Toe one of shakespeare's common genres

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Well it fits into the tragedy because of healing time

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right there only they're only one or two options The

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chase there's a comedy where people get married at the

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end and a tragedy where everyone dies except for one

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person who lives to tell the tale right in this

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one It's horatio you know in in cleopatra it's caesar

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silly that right So so it's just a it's a

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classic thing where you know that there are only one

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or two possible outcomes which is why i kind of

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these moments with the crown as opposed to hamlet are

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so significant because they end up kind of being embodiments

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of different genres right gets a choose like between everything

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everything being happy or everything aside there's kind of no

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in between even though obviously there's There are really tragic

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moments in the comedies and they're very funny moments in

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the tragedies on the genres of shakespeare's plays defined by

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how they end Yeah they're defined by how they ends

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which is an interesting generic point because they're also as

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a viewer there's this sense of foreboding with tragedy and

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there's The scent of like like kind of underlying calm

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with comedy right So because we know like in a

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romcom because we know in the end they're gonna get

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together It could be pleasurable to see them go through

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all this pain How does hamlet fallen Toe one of

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