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Comedy of Errors

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: New Cambridge Shakespeare SPublication details: UK Cambridge University Press 2005Edition: 2 Rev edDescription: 146pISBN:
  • 9780521535168
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 822.33/SHA SHA
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Ros King provides a completely new Introduction to the existing text and commentary for this updated edition of The Comedy of Errors. She argues that the play cannot be regarded only as a farcical romp based on a classical model, but should be considered part of a critically misunderstood genre of tragi-comedy. Stressing the play's underlying seriousness, the Introduction pays special attention to its religious imagery. First Edition Hb (1988): 0-521-22153-6 First Edition Pb (1988): 0-521-29368-5

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Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • List of Illustrations (p. viii)
  • Introduction (p. 1)
  • 1594/1604--a play for Christmas? (p. 1)
  • 1623: the text (p. 10)
  • Sources and analogues (p. 17)
  • Plautus, Menaechmi (p. 17)
  • William Warner (p. 21)
  • Plautus, Amphitruo (p. 25)
  • Apollonius of Tyre: Gower or Twine? (p. 27)
  • Acts and Ephesians (p. 37)
  • Farce, City Comedy and Romance (p. 42)
  • Four centuries of 'Errors' on the page and on the stage (p. 59)
  • Editorial Procedures (p. 81)
  • Abbreviations and references (p. 82)
  • The Comedy of Errors (p. 87)
  • Appendix A Proverbial language in 'The Comedy of Errors' (p. 181)
  • Appendix B Extracts from 'Gesta Grayorum' (1688) (p. 183)
  • Appendix C Plautus, 'Menaechmi' (William Warner's 1595 translation) (p. 188)
  • Appendix D Extracts from Acts and Ephesians (The Geneva Bible (1560)) (p. 221)
  • Index (p. 225)

Excerpt provided by Syndetics

A father of newborn identical twins gives the boys the same name, while acquiring another set of twins (who also share a name) to be servant to his sons. What are the odds that a shipwreck will separate them, leaving two pairings of master and servant with identical names? If it's a Shakespeare comedy, it is virtually inevitable. it is also inevitable that these pairs will wind up in the same town, unaware of each other's presence, causing a great deal of confusion. Shakespeare is well-known for deriving comedy from mistaken identity, and here the device is taken to extremes, with hilarious results. Excerpted from The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.

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