The Comedy of Errors: The Works of William Shakespeare [cambridge Edition] [9 Vols.]
1623
The Comedy of Errors: The Works of William Shakespeare [cambridge Edition] [9 Vols.]
1623
Shakespeare's shortest and most anarchic comedy is a masterpiece of controlled chaos. Written in his twenties, it deploys two sets of identical twins separated at birth, then reunites them in the ancient Greek city of Ephesus with catastrophic results. Antipholus of Syracuse and his servant Dromio arrive unaware that their twin brothers, complete with identically named servants, already live there. What follows is a cascade of wrong doors, wrongful beatings, false accusations of infidelity and theft, a near-seduction, an arrest, and one of the most brilliantly botched dinners in theatrical history. The humor runs from slapstick to sophisticated wordplay, but the real engine is something deeper: the terror and wonder of confronting your double, of wondering which self is the real one. Almost four centuries later, the phrase 'comedy of errors' has entered the language as shorthand for spectacular, spiraling disaster. This Cambridge edition provides the scholarly bedrock for understanding how Shakespeare turned a Roman source into English farce that still cracks audiences up.
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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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