Part of: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (The Oxford Shakespeare) The Comedy of Errors

Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors is a comic farce about two identical sets of twins and their misadventures. This edition comes from the 1916 Oxford University Press edition of all of Shakespeare’s plays and poems.

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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (The Oxford Shakespeare), ed. with a glossary by W.J. Craig M.A. (Oxford University Press, 1916).

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Theatre

The Boys from Syracuse

The Boys from Syracuse is a Broadway musical based on The Comedy of Errors. You can watch a filmed version from 1940 here.

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Connected Readings

Menaechmi, or The Twin Brothers

T. Maccius Plautus

The main source for The Comedy of Errors is The Maenechmi by Plautus, which Shakespeare may have read in grammar school, as Plautus was frequently part of the grammar school curriculum.

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Art

Robson and Crane as the two Dromios in the Comedy of errors, act V, scene 1

Folger Shakespeare Library

Dromio of Syracuse and Dromio of Ephesus encounter one another for the first time in a print from the Folger Library collection.

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In Praise of Folly

Desiderius Erasmus

Shakespeare’s comedies are known for their use of the “fool.” His fools are sometimes truly foolish, and sometimes foolish in a way that reveals a deep and important wisdom. Inspiration for the wise fool can be traced to Erasmus’s Praise of Folly. Comedy of Errors, which doubles everything, gives…

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