The Comedy of Errors
A Comedy of Errors is Shakespeare's shortest play yet one of his most popular comedies. Here is a new modern-spelling edition, based on the 1623 Folio text with on-page commentary and notes that explain meaning, staging, language and allusions. A detailed and informative introduction describes...
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A Comedy of Errors is Shakespeare's shortest play yet one of his most popular comedies. Here is a new modern-spelling edition, based on the 1623 Folio text with on-page commentary and notes that explain meaning, staging, language and allusions. A detailed and informative introduction describes the play's first performance at Gray's Inn in December 1594, its multiple sources and its uneven critical and theatrical history. Appendices include the complete text of the play's main source, Plautus' Menaechmi, and extracts from Gesta Grayorum and the Geneva Bible. Illustrated with production photographs and related art, this edition vividly brings to life Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors. "Not simply a better text but a new conception of Shakespeare. This is a major achievement of twentieth-century scholarship."--Times Literary Supplement
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780192814616 (0192814613)
Publish date: April 1st 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pages no: 232
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Humor,
Comedy,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Plays,
Drama,
Theatre,
Poetry
This is very, very early Shakespeare and it shows. The plot is that two pairs of twins have been separated at birth, with one being the master and one being the servant from each pair. Each twin has the same name as the other, so we have two servants named Dromio and two masters named Antipholus. ...
Cute.I don't often use this word to describe something I've read, but I think it's acceptable to use The Comedy of Errors. It's not the strongest play of Shakespeare's that I've read, but that's understandable as it is apparently one of his earliest. And of course, occupying the middle ground in Bil...
I listened to another one of Shakespeare plays, recorded by Librivox. It was a short comedy about the errors and misunderstandings that arise out of the fact that two pairs of twins are in one town without anyone knowing. Synopsis (Wikipedia):Due to a law forbidding the presence of Syracusian mer...
A play with a hilariously absurd premise-- two sets of twins separated at birth, each twin with the same name as his brother. Lots of mistaken identities and confusion. This is probably funnier performed than read as a lot of the humour is slapstick.
A very humorous read, though one occasionally misses jokes due to the changes in language which have occurred over time. overall however all may find humor in this play and its various adaptations to the theater and film.
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