Answer: The Tempest is a play which is hard to classify under any genre category, as it contains elements of different categories (romance and comedy in the first place).
Step-by-step explanation:
The Tempest is the last play that Shakespeare wrote all by himself. Published in 1623, it was included in the First Folio.
The play is commonly classified as a late romance, together with his other plays that Shakespeare wrote at the end of his career (Cymbeline, Pericles, the Winter's Tale). Just like the three remaining plays from this group, the Tempest opens with a tragic beginning (the storm and Prospero's account of his brother's betrayal) and leads to a happy ending - the marriage between Miranda and Ferdinand. The theme of marriage also contributes to this classification, although it is not the central part of the plot.
In the First Folio (collection of Shakespeare's works), the Tempest falls under the genre category 'comedy'. Although there are certain misunderstandings and the characters' plots against each other (Prospero plots against his brother, Antonio and Sebastian plan to murder Alonso, etc.), no one dies over the course of the play, and the natural order of things is restored. Moreover, the two characters - Stephano and Trinculo, often involved in comic situations, make the often classification of the Tempest as a comedy play justified. For example, in Act II, Scene II, they call Caliban ''a strange fish'', which is often greeted with laughter by the audience.