According to Johnson, the plays of Shakespeare were originally classified into
A)Comedies and tragedies
B)Comedies, tragedies and histories
C)Comedies, tragedies and love stories
D)None of the above

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Samuel Johnson, in his preface to The Plays of William Shakespeare (1765), adhered to the classification of Shakespeare's plays into comedies, tragedies, and histories. This categorization reflects the division found in the First Folio of Shakespeare's works, published in 1623.

According to Johnson, the Plays of Shakespeare Were Originally Classified