During the Renaissance, plays and romances include many of the culture's best and most notable dramatic achievements. According to A Glossary of Literary Terms, edited by M. H. Abrams and Geoffrey Galt Harpham, plays are written to entertain the audience, with the characters and their humiliations attracting our pleasant attention rather than our thoughtful concern. Furthermore, the audience is “made to feel confident that a major disaster will not occur, and the action usually ends happily for the main characters” (c. 2012). For example, William Shakespeare, after his death, his work was published and classified into the sometimes overlapping genres of tragedy, comedy, romance, and history. One of his plays that have an overlapping genre is A Midsummer Night's Dream. The work is a comedy but presents some paradigms of romantic comedy. Since the play is a comedy, it is clear from the beginning that it will be a comedy and that the ending will be happy, rather than a tragic ending that will try to make the audience sad for the character. In A Midsummer Night's Dream, ...