Happy, happy, happy!

Oliver: "O that your Highness knew my heart in this!
I never loved my brother in my life."
Duke Frederick: "More villian though."
As You Like It III.i. pg 34

The difference between a tragedy and a comedy by Shakespeare? A ragedy leaves time for the characters to develop, so much so, that in Othello, I found myself cheering for the bad guy because I felt so close to him. In As You Like It, I could barely figure out who the antagonist was!! I felt like we were often thrown into the middle of the story, such as when, i the quote above, Duke Frederick and Oliver speak to one another as if they have known each other for a long time, but the audience has never seen their interactions or heard of their connection. The only clue i could find for their connections was that Oliver knows Charles, and Charles knows the Duke. Other than that, i had a hard time finding the connection.
Obviously, in a tragedy, the characters die, while in a comedy, they don't. It was refreshing for people to finally live happiy ever after, and the humor was nice. The ironic thing is, though, that I've been looking all year for a happy ending to an AP Lit work, but I think I enjoyed the tragedy more than the comedy in this case.