Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-384) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- Error and identity -- The cultural world -- Poetic geography, travel, Dark Ephesus -- Genre and style -- Sources and influences -- Staging -- Early performances -- Afterlife: image, stage and screen -- The comedy of errors -- Longer notes -- Appendices: Date of composition ; The text and editorial procedures ; Casting and doubling.
Summary:
"Shakespeare's dexterous 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"-- provided by publisher.
Series:
The Arden Shakespeare. Third series Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Works. 1995. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95056756
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