Supper

Being familiar only with two or three of the many plays and poems by Shakespeare, I'm not sure I'm really qualified to write about his style or "conventions" but here's what I've noticed in the few I have seen.

Revenge seems to be very common in the tragedies. Romeo taking revenge for Mercutio's death, Hamlet seeking revenge of his father's death, Laertes trying to avenge his father's death..

Identity (or confusion thereof). The masquerade in Romeo and Juliet meet, Hamlet killing Pulonius insted of Claudius. I hardly remember As You Like it, but weren't there some disguises in that one as well? *

Witty dialogue
"the slip, good sir, the slip" along with Mercutio's rant about Queen Mab, Hamlet's answer to the question of "Where's Pulonius?", The grave-diggers' hard-to-follow arguments on the nature of death and christian burials...




*Yes, and very much of it.
Another Shakespeare convention seems to be pointlessness.
Theres always one or two characters that the play could be perfectly fine without.