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The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare

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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...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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The Comedy of Errors Information
2,681 words, approx. 9 pages
<i>The Comedy of Errors</i> 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...


News and Journals
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AP News
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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AP News
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....
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Compounding Errors
16,342 words, approx. 55 pages
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.
 
Featured Essays
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Essay Grade: 86%
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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