Shakespeare's Tragedy Summaries

TRAGEDIES
1	Julius Caesar
	A tragedy about how good people do bad things.  A hero, loved by people, hated by politics, making enemies.
2	Anthony & Cleopatra
	More interested in entertainment than history, War, love, intrigue, obsession, conquest are all in this play.
3	Coriolanus
	A play set in Rome, well before Caesar, consuls and senators. War, deceipt, denial, tribunals, and Rome's fate.  Coriolanus is killed in the end.
4	Hamlet -- "The Play"
	King Hamlet is killed by his brother who takes the queen to wive and Hamlet discovers and creates a play within a play as he slowely goes crazy and takes everyone with him.  Everyone dies of poison or by swords in the end.
5	Tragedy of Cymbeline, the King
	This is His most confusing play.  It's a history, no a tragedy, no a comedy.  Because it ends happy, it's not a tragedy technically.  Yeah, the play is confusing too.
6	King Lear
	Sibling Rivalry, three daughters, flattery, malice, who loves who best, that is the test.  Banishments, death, hangings, poisoned, suicide.
7	MacBeth
	An historical figure, Macbeth murdered Duncan and Shakespeare expounded from there.  It has three witches, skeletons, prophesys, and insanity "Out dam spots,
8	Othello
	Othello, a general listens to the Iago, the villain, becomes jealous over his wife, smothers her, kills himself,
9	Romeo & Juliet
	Boy meets girl, fall in love, parents angry,  poison, pretend to die, suicide, no one marries in the end.
10	The Life Of Timon of Athens
	Timon learns trouble separates fair-weather friends from true friends.  Gold, and power can't make that up.  And in the end, Timon dies.
11	Titus Andronicus
	In every act of this play, somes kills or slices body parts off someone else.  It is totally gross, the most gruesome play he wrote.  Serious blue period for Shakespeare.
12	Trolius and Cressida
	Trojan war is the backdrop, and this play warns about meddling and interfering with natural order.  Pandarus, a busybody who interferes  in the matters, both backfire.  Title characters don't die, so it's not technically a tragedy, but as a comedy, it's a real downer.
13	Pericles, Prince of Tyre
	This one is again confusing, Pericles comes to Antioch to answer the riddle and win the princess.  The King is jealous and tried to kill him, he runs, goes to another island, marries someone else, she appears to die in childbirth, is actually only mostly dead.  She goes to a convent.  It gets better at the end… or at least weirder.