text: characteristics of shakespeare's comedy? i have a quick question or just need an overall understanding as to what are shakespeare's comedy main characteristics? i have been trying to search around some sites but all i find are term papers. i would greatly appreciate if someone could give me an overall basic meaning or understanding of characteristics of shakespeare's comedy shakespeare page.  http://www.field-of-themes.com/shakespeare/  http://www.william-shakespeare.info/site-map.htm  online literary criticism collection  http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/bin/litcrit.out.pl?au=sha-9  more monologues by william shakespeare  http://www.monologuearchive.com/s/shakespeare_001.html  http://www.theatrehistory.com/plays/shakesmono.html  the complete works of william shakespeare.  http://www.elook.org/literature/shakespeare/  http://www-tech.mit.edu/shakespeare/works.html  http://www.ipl.org/div/shakespeare/  http://www.shakespearehelp.com/  http://shakespeare.thefreelibrary.com/  http://www.nosweatshakespeare.com/  http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/  http://absoluteshakespeare.com/  http://www.online-literature.com/shakespeare/  http://www.bardweb.net/  http://www.shakespeare-online.com/  http://opensourceshakespeare.com/  http://www.allgreatquotes.com/shakespeare_quotes.shtml  http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/william_shakespeare/  shakespeare navigators!  http://www.clicknotes.com/  good luck.  kevin, liverpool, england.