When Shakespeare wrote "The Merchant of Venice," it was done as comedy and the hero and heroine did not die"that was the differentiation at the time between a comedy and tragedy. Comedies like "Much Ado About Nothing," tragedies like "Hamlet," and some farces, for instance, "A Comedy of Errors," relied mostly on sight gags and […]
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 02:25PM on March 28, 2022