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The Comedy of Errors

William Shakespeare

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The Comedy of Errors

William Shakespeare

British Literature, Classics of Literature, Humour, Plays/Films/Dramas

The laugh track starts early and never stops. Shakespeare's shortest and most aggressively funny play dumps two pairs of identical twins into the same city, and the resulting chaos is breathtaking in its stupidity and brilliance. Antipholus of Syracuse arrives in Ephesus with his servant Dromio, completely unaware that his exact double lives there with his own Dromio. What follows is a cascade of wrong-person beatings, false accusations of theft, a near-seduction, an arrest, and demands for exorcism. But beneath the slapstick fury sits something genuinely moving: a father sentenced to death for simply trying to find his lost family, two sets of twins who spent their lives separated, and the question of what identity even means when anyone can be mistaken for their mirror image. Shakespeare builds a comedy machine out of confusion itself, and it roars to life.

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A comedic play likely written in the late 16th century. The play centers around the theme of mistaken identities and exp...

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The Comedy of Errors is one of William Shakespeare's earliest plays. It is his shortest and one of his most farcical com...

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Excerpt from Die Kom�die der Irrungen Geste Grayorum or the History of the High and mighty Prince, Henry Prince of Purpo...

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“A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with light weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain.””

— William Shakespeare

“We came into the world like brother and brother,And now let's go hand in hand, not one before another.””

— William Shakespeare

“He that commends me to mine own contentCommends me to the thing I cannot get.I to the world am like a drop of waterThat in the ocean seeks another drop,Who, falling there to find his fellow forth,Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself:So I, to find a mother and a brother,In quest of them, unhappy, lose myself.””

— William Shakespeare

“I to the world am like a drop of waterThat in the ocean seeks another drop, Who, falling there to find his fellow forth, Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself.””

— William Shakespeare

“O, grief hath changed me since you saw me last,And careful hours with Time's deformed handHave written strange defeatures in my face.But tell me yet, dost thou not know my voice?””

— William Shakespeare

“If the skin were parchment and the blows you gave were ink,Your own handwriting would tell you what I think.””

— William Shakespeare

“Until I know this sure uncertainty,I'll entertain the offered fallacy.””

— William Shakespeare

“O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note,to drown me in thy sister’s flood of tears.””

— William Shakespeare

“If she lives till doomsday, she'll burn a week longer than the whole world.””

— William Shakespeare

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