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Please read the following instructions CAREFULLY. There are THREE questions which need to be fully addressed.  

INSTRUCTIONS: 

According to Polonius in Hamlet by William Shakespeare, generic categories do not often ‘fit’ plays and their actors well.  Praising the traveling actors who are visiting Denmark, Polonius says that they are, “the best actors in the world, either for tragedy, comedy, history, pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical pastoral, tragical-historical, tragical-comical-historical-pastoral” (II.ii.396-9).  

1) To what degree do you think Polonius is accurate or mistaken in his evaluation of generic categories?  
2) To what degree do certain plays ‘fit’ or defy conventional categorization and classification and division?  
3) Could, perhaps, Shakespeare be speaking through his character Polonius here, offering a critique of the Renaissance theatre?

Refer to the plays you read, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, and The Tempest, to address these questions.  You do not need to read or refer to Hamlet for this discussion.

Your response to the question should be at least 250 words, address the question fully, AND include an appropriate MLA-format reference.