The Comedy of Errors

Shakespeare's dextrous comedy of two twin masters and two twin servants continually mistaken for one another is both farce and more than farce. The Comedy of Errors examines the interplay between personal and commercial relationships, and the breakdown of social order that follows the disruption of identity. As well as detailed on-page commentary notes, this new edition has a long, illustrated introduction exploring the play's performance and critical history, as well as its place in the comic tradition from Classical to modern times.

The Arden Shakespeare has long set the gold standard in annotated, scholarly editions of Shakespeare's plays. Each Arden edition in the Third Series offers a modernized text with comprehensive commentary notes glossing meanings, discussing staging issues and explaining literary allusions, together with a lengthy, illustrated introduction by a leading scholar exploring the play's critical, theatrical and historical contexts.

The General Editors for the Third Series are Richard Proudfoot, Emeritus Professor, King's College London; Professor Ann Thompson, King's College London; Professor David Scott Kastan, Yale University; and Professor H.R. Woudhuysen, Lincoln College, University of Oxford. The Associate General Editor is George Walton Williams, Emeritus Professor, Duke University.