| Series Introduction | p. ix |
| Volume Introduction by Harold Bloom | p. xi |
| Biography of William Shakespeare | p. 1 |
| Summary of The Comedy of Errors | p. 5 |
| Key Passages in The Comedy of Errors | p. 27 |
| List of Characters in The Comedy of Errors | p. 47 |
| Criticism Through the Ages | p. 49 |
| The Comedy of Errors in the Seventeenth Century | p. 51 |
| 1602-From How a Man May Choose a Good Wife from a Bad | p. 52 |
| 1688-Excerpt from the Gesta Grayorum (Deeds of Gray) | p. 53 |
| The Comedy of Errors in the Eighteenth Century | p. 57 |
| 1753. "Observations on the Use Shakespear has made of the Menaechmus of Plautus, in his Comedy of Errors," from Shakespear Illustrated | p. 61 |
| 1773-. "Annotations Upon the Comedy of Errors," from Annotations by Sam. Johnson & Geo. Steevens, and the Various Commentators upon the Comedy of Errors | p. 71 |
| The Comedy of Errors in the Nineteenth Century | p. 95 |
| 1809- "The Comedy of Errors," from Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature | p. 100 |
| 1817- From Shakespeare and His Times | p. 101 |
| 1817-. "The Comedy of Errors," from Characters of Shakespear's Plays | p. 101 |
| 1818-. "Comedy of Errors," from Shakspeare, with Introductory Remarks on Poetry, the Drama, and the Stage | p. 104 |
| 1844-. Commentary from "Insanity-Illustrated by Histories of Distinguished Men, and by the Writings of Poets and Novelists" | p. 104 |
| 1865-. From the introduction to The Comedy of Errors in The Works of William Shakespeare | p. 115 |
| 1877-."The Comedy of Errors," from System of Shakespear's Dramas | p. 119 |
| 1891-."The Comedy of Errors," from The Comedies of Shakespeare | p. 126 |
| 1895-."Shakespeare as a Comic Poet," from Five Lectures on Shakespeare | p. 137 |
| The Comedy of Errors in the Twentieth Century | p. 147 |
| 1903-"The Comedy of Errors and The Taming of the Shrew," from Shakespeare Commentaries | p. 160 |
| 1907-."The Early Comedies,"from Introduction to Shakespeare | p. 165 |
| 1913- Section 3 of "His Earliest Comedies," from Shakspere as a Playwright | p. 166 |
| 1930-"The Comedy of Errors" from Shakespeare | p. 168 |
| 1951-"The Comedy of Errors", from The Meaning of Shakespeare | p. 171 |
| 1965-."The Comedy of Errors," from Shakespeare's Early Comedies | p. 173 |
| 1995-."Beginnings and Endings: Structure and Mimesis in Shakespeare's Comedies," from Entering the Maze: Shakespeare's Art of Beginning | p. 183 |
| 1998-."The Comedy of Errors," from Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human | p. 192 |
| The Comedy of Errors in the Twenty-first Century | p. 195 |
| 2002- "Farce, City Comedy and Romance" from the introduction to The Comedy of Errors | p. 202 |
| Bibliography | p. 217 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 221 |
| Index | p. 223 |
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