How many comedies did Shakespeare write?

William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet and actor.

William Shakespeare is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s greatest dramatist and is often called England’s national poet and the “Bard of Avon.”

William Shakespeare’s early plays were primarily comedies and histories and are regarded as some of the best works produced in these genres.

William Shakespeare is believed to have written 17 comedies, which include The Merchant of Venice and Much Ado About Nothing.

William Shakespeare also wrote mainly tragedies until 1608, among them Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth, all considered to be among the finest works in the English language.

William Shakespeare’s extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship.

William Shakespeare’s plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright and his works continue to be studied and reinterpreted.