The Comedy of Errors The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.]

William Shakespeare

Subjects: Mistaken identity -- Drama, Twins -- Drama, Greece -- Drama, Brothers -- Drama, PR, Shipwreck victims -- Drama, Comedies, I

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The Comedy of Errors is one of William Shakespeare's earliest plays, believed to have been written between 1589 and 1594. It is his shortest and one of his most farcical, with a major part of the humour coming from slapstick and mistaken identity, in addition to puns and wordplay. The Comedy of Errors (along with The Tempest) is one of only two of Shakespeare's plays to observe the classical unities. It has been adapted for opera, stage, screen and musical theatre. The Comedy of Errors tells the story of two sets of identical twins. Antipholus of Syracuse and his servant, Dromio of Syracuse, a.

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