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You are here: Home / Shakespeareâs Plays / Shakespeareâs Five Act Structure. When you read a Shakespeare play youâll probably notice that itâs divided into acts and scenes â and always has a five act structure. The number of scenes in each act vary but there are always be five acts, no exceptions.
In his 1979 edition of the play for the second series of the Arden Shakespeare, Harold F. Brooks argues that Shakespeare used the source story from Ovid 's Metamorphoses first to examine the tragic potential and then to exploit its comic and farcical elements in his next play.