relying on your reading of hamlet and any other of shakespeare's tragedies with which you are familiar, the characteristics of a shakespearean tragedy that expand the simple definition of "a serious play with an unhappy ending" are that:
*select all that apply
1. suspense is built by both internal and external conflicts
2. the tragic hero is usually of noble birth; his death affects many
3. supernatural elements are present (ghosts)
4. comic relief is used to ease the tension
5. several main conflicts of equal value and import occur together
6. the hero is destroyed by his tragic flaw

Read the excerpt from act ii, scene v of romeo and juliet. friar laurence: these violent delights have violent ends, and in their triumph die, like fire and powder, which, as they kiss consume: the sweetest honey is loathsome in his own deliciousness and in the taste confounds the appetite: 15 therefore love moderately; long love doth so; too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. friar laurence is motivated to offer this warning because he knows that something bad will certainly happen to the lovers. feels that romeo is acting foolishly and should not get married. enjoys giving advice because he is wise and can others. wants to caution romeo about the consequences of his actions.