The Comedy of Errors
1623

The Comedy of Errors
1623
The Comedy of Errors, written by William Shakespeare and first published in 1623, is a farcical comedy centered on two sets of identical twins separated at birth. Set in the Greek city of Ephesus, the play explores themes of mistaken identity and familial confusion as Antipholus of Syracuse and his servant Dromio encounter their long-lost twin brothers, leading to a series of comedic misunderstandings and chaotic events. Notable for being one of Shakespeare's shortest plays, it has influenced the genre of comedy and has been widely adapted across various media.
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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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