The Comedy of Errors

by William Shakespeare (Author), William Shakespeare (Author), Paul Edmondson (Contributor), Stanley Wells (Editor), Randall Martin (Editor)

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2005
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Two sets of identical twins, separated at sea as children, find themselves in the same city for the first time as adults. Soon, their friends mistake the twins for one another and bewilderment abounds, as the wife of one man declares the other to be her husband, pronouncing him mad when he denies the claim. Exuberant, complex and brilliantly farcical, this is a hilarious comedy of confusion and ultimate reunion.

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Two sets of identical twins, separated at sea as children, find themselves in the same city for the first time as adults. Soon, their friends mistake the twins for one another and bewilderment abounds, as the wife of one man declares the other to be her husband, pronouncing him mad when he denies the claim. Exuberant, complex and brilliantly farcical, this is a hilarious comedy of confusion and ultimate reunion.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
Edition: New ed
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 27 Oct 2005
ISBN 10: 0141016671
ISBN 13: 9780141016672

Media Reviews

Praise for William Shakespeare: Complete Works
Remarkable . . . makes Shakespeare's extraordinary accomplishment more vivid than ever. --James Shapiro, professor, Columbia University, bestselling author of A Year in the Life of Shakespeare: 1599
A feast of literary and historical information. -- The Wall Street Journal

Praise for William Shakespeare: Complete Works

Remarkable . . . makes Shakespeare's extraordinary accomplishment more vivid than ever. --James Shapiro, professor, Columbia University, bestselling author of A Year in the Life of Shakespeare: 1599

A feast of literary and historical information. -- The Wall Street Journal

Author Bio

William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright of the 16th and 17 centuries, now widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the word's pre-eminent dramatist. Randall Martin is Professor of English at the University of New Brunswick. He has edited Henry VI Part Three for The Oxford Shakespeare and Oxford World's Classics, and The Merchant of Venice, with a theatre commentary by Peter Lichtenfels, for Applause Theatre Books. He is currently writing a book about early modern English murder news, and completing an edition of Ben Jonson's Every Man Out of His Humour for the forthcoming Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson. Randall Martin is Professor of English at the University of New Brunswick. He has edited Henry VI Part Three for The Oxford Shakespeare and Oxford World's Classics, and The Merchant of Venice, with a theatre commentary by Peter Lichtenfels, for Applause Theatre Books. He is currently writing a book about early modern English murder news, and completing an edition of Ben Jonson's Every Man Out of His Humour for the forthcoming Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson.