The Comedy of Errors

By: William Shakespeare, T. S. Dorsch (Editor), Ros King (Revised by)

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Paperback | 26 February 2004 | Edition Number 2

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The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. For this second edition of The Comedy of Errors, Ros King has revised T. S. Dorsch's renowned text and commentary and written a completely new introduction to the work. She argues that the play cannot be regarded merely as a farcical romp based on a classical model but that it belongs to the critically misunderstood genre of tragi-comedy. Emphasising the seriousness that underlies the text, she pays special attention to the play's religious imagery and at the same time engages fully with its lightness of touch and its continuing popularity in the theatre. The volume also features accounts of recent and historical performances, and an updated reading list.

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"King's lively introduction and helpful new bibliography constitute a very welcome updating of the Dorsch edition and shed some new light on one of Shakespeare's early comic masterpieces." - The Sixteenth Century Journal Thomas G. Olsen, State University of New York at New Paltz

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List of Illustrations	p. viii
Introduction	p. 1
1594/1604--a play for Christmas?	p. 1
1623: the text	p. 10
Sources and analogues	p. 17
Plautus, Menaechmi	p. 17
William Warner	p. 21
Plautus, Amphitruo	p. 25
Apollonius of Tyre: Gower or Twine?	p. 27
Acts and Ephesians	p. 37
Farce, City Comedy and Romance	p. 42
Four centuries of 'Errors' on the page and on the stage	p. 59
Editorial Procedures	p. 81
Abbreviations and references	p. 82
The Comedy of Errors	p. 87
Proverbial language in 'The Comedy of Errors'	p. 181
Extracts from 'Gesta Grayorum' (1688)	p. 183
Plautus, 'Menaechmi' (William Warner's 1595 translation)	p. 188
Extracts from Acts and Ephesians (The Geneva Bible (1560))	p. 221
Index	p. 225
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