Romeo and Juliet hamlet and Macbeth are some of Shakespeare's best-known

These are some of Shakespeare's best-known tragedies.

Shakespeare wrote a lot - he wrote poems (sonnets), and he wrote plays (historical plays, tragedies, and comedies). Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, King Lear, etc. are some of his most famous tragedies which end in an unhappy manner - usually with protagonists dying,

Plays. Shakespeare was a playwright.