Tag: Shakespearian Tragedies

While I’m talking about happy endings and trends in what is considered good writing, let’s talk about Restoration England (cuz why not?). It’s a period when people preferred happy endings – to the point where they re-wrote Shakespeare’s tragedies to have them. Let me say that again: they re-wrote Shakespeare’s tragedies to have happy endings. Granted, years of strict Puritan laws...