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The Comedy of Errors (1972) adaptation by James McCloskey, music and lyrics by Bruce Kimmel. Premiered at Los Angeles City College and went on to the American College Theatre Festival. The Comedy of Errors is a musical with book and lyrics by Trevor Nunn, and music by Guy Woolfenden.
Sep 3, 2024 · The Comedy of Errors, five-act comedy by William Shakespeare, written in 1589–94 and first published in the First Folio of 1623 from Shakespeare’s manuscript. It was based on Menaechmi by Plautus, with additional material from Plautus’s Amphitruo and the story of Apollonius of Tyre.
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Shakespeare makes many changes and additions to the story of The Menaechmi. He enlarges and enriches the role of the neglected wife and adds a sister, father and mother, as well as the new location of Ephesus. The most striking of Shakespeare's additions is that of a second pair of identical twins - the servant Dromios. Shakespeare's knowledge of a...
The characters of the father Aegeon and that of his long-lost wife, Abbess Emilia, can trace their ancestry back to John Gower's Confessio Amantis(1390). Gower tells the story of Apollonius's wife who appears to die in childbirth while at sea. Consigned to the waves, her body floats to Ephesus where, revived, she becomes a priestess of Diana and is...
Like the Greek and Roman classics, the Bible cannot be underestimated as an influence on writers of Shakespeare's period. In St Paul's Acts of the Apostles, Shakespeare read about the strange sorceries for which Ephesus was notorious. St Paul's Epistle to the Ephesiansis full of advice on the right way for husbands and wives - as well as masters an...
A complete summary of William Shakespeare's Play, Comedy of Errors. Find out more about the humour and mistaken identity in this, one of Shakespeare's earliest plays.
In Shakespeare’s day, as in our own, tragedy pitted men and women against fate (Romeo and Juliet) or character (Macbeth), while comedy looked at the relationships of people—at families, kinship patterns, friends, communities.
When Published: 1595. Literary Period: The Renaissance (1500-1660) Genre: Drama, comedy, comedy of errors. Setting: Ephesus (an ancient Greek city in Asia Minor, located on the coast of present-day Turkey) Climax: As the Duke prepares to execute Aegeon, both Aemilia and Antipholus of Ephesus demand justice from him.
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Getting exact dates for the writing of Shakespeare's plays is quite tricky, but it's generally agreed that The Comedy of Errors was written around early to mid-1594, making it probably the earliest of his comedies. What isn't in doubt is that it is Shakespeare's shortest play.
