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The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare

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The Comedy of Errors Quotes
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The Comedy of Errors is one of William Shakespeare 's early plays, written between 1592 and 1594. It is his shortest and one of his most farcical. A major part of the humor comes from slapstick, mistaken identity, puns and wordplay. Contents 1 Act I 2...


Author Biography

Name: William Shakespeare
Birth Date: April 23, 1564
Death Date: April 23, 1616
Place of Birth: Stratford-upon-Avon, England
Place of Death: Stratford-upon-Avon, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer

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Biography of William Shakespeare
35385 words, approx. 118 pages
"He was not of an age, but for all time." So wrote Ben Jonson in his dedicatory verses to the memory of William Shakespeare in 1623, and so we continue to affirm today. No other writer, in English or in any other language, can rival the appeal that Shake...
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Biography of William Shakespeare
30474 words, approx. 101.6 pages
"He was not of an age, but for all time." So wrote Ben Jonson in his dedicatory verses to the memory of William Shakespeare in 1623, and so we continue to affirm today. No other writer, in English or in any other language, can rival the appeal that Shake...
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Biography of William Shakespeare
10254 words, approx. 34.2 pages
William Shakespeare's reputation is based primarily on his plays. With the partial exception of the Sonnets (1609), quarried since the early nineteenth century for autobiographical secrets allegedly encoded in them, the nondramatic writings have traditio...
 


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The Comedy of Errors Information
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The Comedy of Errors is one of William Shakespeare's early plays, written between 1592 and 1594. It is his shortest and one of his most farcical: for a major part of the humour comes from slapstick and mistaken identity, added to the puns and wordplay....


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Broadway performer Ellen Hanley dies
2/13/2007: 307 words, approx. 1 pages
Ellen Hanley _ a musical-theater performer best-known for playing Fiorello LaGuardia's first wife in the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Fiorello!" _ has died of a stroke after a long battle with cancer. She was 80.Hanley died Monday at Norwalk (Conn.) Hospital, her daughter, Nora Graham, said.The actress,...
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Rivera sails through practice session
2/23/2007: 611 words, approx. 2 pages
Mariano Rivera sailed through his first batting practice session. The Yankees closer threw 35 pitches Friday to a hitting group that included Derek Jeter, Johnny Damon, Bobby Abreu and Robinson Cano."Mariano was fine," Yankees manager Joe Torre said.Rivera was sidelined from Aug. 31 to Sept....
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Whatcha Readin'?: Summer Flings
8/7/2005: 3,608 words, approx. 12 pages
Back when summer actually meant a few months of relaxing and down time to New Yorkers, one of the most treasured rituals was the weekly trip to the neighborhood bookstore, to choose a new book (or stack of books) to keep one company at the...
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Summer Flings
8/7/2005: 3,608 words, approx. 12 pages
Back when summer actually meant a few months of relaxing and down time to New Yorkers, one of the most treasured rituals was the weekly trip to the neighborhood bookstore, to choose a new book (or stack of books) to keep one company at the...
 


Criticism and Essays
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Compounding Errors
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T. G. Bishop, Case Western Reserve University
The sea, in fact, is that state of barbaric vagueness and disorder out of which civilisation has emerged, and into which, unless saved by the effort of gods and men, it is always liable to relapse.
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Critical Essay by A. Bronson Feldman
15,540 words, approx. 52 pages
In the essay below, Feldman presents a psychological biography of Shakespeare based on a detailed analysis of the plot and characters of The Comedy of Errors.
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Critical Essay by Charles Whitworth
15,119 words, approx. 50 pages
In the following excerpt, Whitworth discusses the production history of The Comedy of Errors and the critical controversy over the play's designation as a farce.
 
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The Comedy of Errors
1,165 words, approx. 4 pages
Analyzes the William Shakespeare play, A Comedy of Errors. Summarizes the plot of the play and discusses major characters. Describes many of the comedic elements utilized by Shakespeare, including confusion, mistaken identity, disguise, repetition, and inversion/reversal.
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Discuss the Comic Effects Brought about by Having Two Sets of Identical Twins.
311 words, approx. 1 pages
In the drama 'The Comedy of Errors', Shakespeare creates comic effects by introducing two sets of identical twins.They are Antipholus of Syracuse and Antipholus of Ephesus, Dromio of ephesus and Dromio of Syracuse.These identical twins are separated and eventually met at Ephesus where they are mistakenly identified by the people and even each other.


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