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Originally Posted by DNSB
I have to wonder about anyone who managed to get out of high school without having noticed that Romeo & Juliet was a tragedy.
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Maybe they were aliens or slept through High School / Secondary School.
There are light hearted Shakespeare Plays that end happily, but the tragedies are usually subtitled such. Some stories such as King Lear have better endings in the sources. I think Nahum Tate's version is truer to the sources.
BTW, Julius Caesar gets assassinated. Cleopatra Dies. Macbeth doesn't go well for most of the characters (I like the Pratchett version).