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class="vector-toc-numb">3</span> <span>Analysis and criticism</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Analysis_and_criticism-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Performance" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Performance"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>Performance</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Performance-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Adaptations" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Adaptations"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Adaptations</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Adaptations-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Adaptations subsection</span> </button> <ul 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</ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Opera" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Opera"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.2</span> <span>Opera</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Opera-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Musicals" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Musicals"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.3</span> <span>Musicals</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Musicals-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Novel" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Novel"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.4</span> <span>Novel</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Novel-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Film" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Film"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.5</span> <span>Film</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Film-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Television" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Television"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.6</span> <span>Television</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Television-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-References-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle References subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Editions_of_The_Comedy_of_Errors" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Editions_of_The_Comedy_of_Errors"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.1</span> <span>Editions of <i>The Comedy of Errors</i></span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Editions_of_The_Comedy_of_Errors-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Further_reading" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Further_reading"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>Further reading</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Further_reading-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>External links</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-titlebar-toc vector-button-flush-left" title="Table of Contents" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-page-titlebar-toc" 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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%88%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%AE%D8%B7%D8%A7%D8%A1" title="كوميديا الأخطاء – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="كوميديا الأخطاء" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-as mw-list-item"><a href="https://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A1%E0%A7%80_%E0%A6%85%E0%A7%B1_%E0%A6%8F%E0%A7%B0%27%E0%A7%B0%E0%A6%9A" title="কমেডী অৱ এৰ'ৰচ – Assamese" lang="as" hreflang="as" data-title="কমেডী অৱ এৰ'ৰচ" data-language-autonym="অসমীয়া" data-language-local-name="Assamese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>অসমীয়া</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%A6%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF_%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A1%E0%A6%BF_%E0%A6%85%E0%A6%AB_%E0%A6%8F%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%B8" title="দ্য কমেডি অফ এররস – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="দ্য কমেডি অফ এররস" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%BE%D1%82_%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%88%D0%BA%D0%B8" title="Комедия от грешки – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Комедия от грешки" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_com%C3%A8dia_dels_errors" title="La comèdia dels errors – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="La comèdia dels errors" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komedie_omyl%C5%AF" title="Komedie omylů – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Komedie omylů" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Kom%C3%B6die_der_Irrungen" title="Die Komödie der Irrungen – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Die Komödie der Irrungen" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%97_%CE%9A%CF%89%CE%BC%CF%89%CE%B4%CE%AF%CE%B1_%CF%84%CF%89%CE%BD_%CE%A0%CE%B1%CF%81%CE%B5%CE%BE%CE%B7%CE%B3%CE%AE%CF%83%CE%B5%CF%89%CE%BD" title="Η Κωμωδία των Παρεξηγήσεων – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Η Κωμωδία των Παρεξηγήσεων" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_comedia_de_las_equivocaciones" title="La comedia de las equivocaciones – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="La comedia de las equivocaciones" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_komedio_de_eraroj" title="La komedio de eraroj – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="La komedio de eraroj" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D9%85%D8%AF%DB%8C_%D8%A7%D8%B4%D8%AA%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%AA" title="کمدی اشتباهات – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="کمدی اشتباهات" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Com%C3%A9die_des_erreurs" title="La Comédie des erreurs – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="La Comédie des erreurs" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Komeedzje_Fol_Fersinnen" title="In Komeedzje Fol Fersinnen – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="In Komeedzje Fol Fersinnen" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Frysk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%8B%A4%EC%88%98_%EC%97%B0%EB%B0%9C" title="실수 연발 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="실수 연발" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8D%D5%AD%D5%A1%D5%AC%D5%B6%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%AB_%D5%AF%D5%A1%D5%BF%D5%A1%D5%AF%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%A3%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%A9%D5%B5%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%B6" title="Սխալների կատակերգություն – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Սխալների կատակերգություն" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A6_%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%89%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A1%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%91%E0%A4%AB_%E0%A4%8F%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B8" title="द कॉमेडी ऑफ एरर्स – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="द कॉमेडी ऑफ एरर्स" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Comedy_of_Errors" title="The Comedy of Errors – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="The Comedy of Errors" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_commedia_degli_errori" title="La commedia degli errori – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="La commedia degli errori" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%93%D7%99%D7%94_%D7%A9%D7%9C_%D7%98%D7%A2%D7%95%D7%99%D7%95%D7%AA" title="קומדיה של טעויות – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="קומדיה של טעויות" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kn mw-list-item"><a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%A6%E0%B2%BF_%E0%B2%95%E0%B2%BE%E0%B2%AE%E0%B3%86%E0%B2%A1%E0%B2%BF_%E0%B2%86%E0%B2%AB%E0%B3%8D_%E0%B2%8E%E0%B2%B0%E0%B2%B0%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%8D" title="ದಿ ಕಾಮೆಡಿ ಆಫ್ ಎರರ್ಸ್ – Kannada" lang="kn" hreflang="kn" data-title="ದಿ ಕಾಮೆಡಿ ಆಫ್ ಎರರ್ಸ್" data-language-autonym="ಕನ್ನಡ" data-language-local-name="Kannada" 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For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/Comedy_of_errors_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Comedy of errors (disambiguation)">Comedy of errors (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Play by William Shakespeare</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vevent"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above summary" style="font-style: italic">The Comedy of Errors</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Robson_Crane_Comedy_of_Errors.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Robson_Crane_Comedy_of_Errors.jpg/220px-Robson_Crane_Comedy_of_Errors.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="274" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Robson_Crane_Comedy_of_Errors.jpg/330px-Robson_Crane_Comedy_of_Errors.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Robson_Crane_Comedy_of_Errors.jpg/440px-Robson_Crane_Comedy_of_Errors.jpg 2x" data-file-width="822" data-file-height="1024" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Poster for 1879 production on <a href="/wiki/Broadway_theatre" title="Broadway theatre">Broadway</a>, featuring <a href="/wiki/Stuart_Robson_(actor)" title="Stuart Robson (actor)">Stuart Robson</a> and <a href="/wiki/William_H._Crane" title="William H. Crane">William H. Crane</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Written by</th><td class="infobox-data description"><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Characters</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li> <ul><li>Solinus – <a href="/wiki/Duke" title="Duke">Duke</a> of Ephesus</li> <li>Aegeon – A merchant of Syracuse – father of the Antipholus twins</li> <li>Emilia – an Abbess – Antipholus' lost mother – wife to Aegeon</li> <li>Antipholus of Ephesus and Antipholus of Syracuse – twin brothers, sons of Aegeon and Emilia</li> <li>Dromio of Ephesus and Dromio of Syracuse – twin brothers, <a href="/wiki/Serfdom" title="Serfdom">bondmen</a>, each serving his respective Antipholus</li> <li>Adriana – wife of Antipholus of Ephesus</li> <li>Luciana – Adriana's sister, love interest of Antipholus of Syracuse</li> <li>Nell – kitchen wench/maid to Adriana, Wife of Dromio of Ephesus</li> <li>Luce – a witty and vivacious servant in the household of Antipholus of Syracuse</li> <li>Balthazar – a merchant</li> <li>Angelo – a <a href="/wiki/Goldsmith" title="Goldsmith">goldsmith</a></li> <li>Courtesan</li> <li>First merchant – friend to Antipholus of Syracuse</li> <li>Second merchant – to whom Angelo is in debt</li> <li>Doctor Pinch – a conjuring schoolmaster</li> <li>Gaoler, Headsman, Officers, and other Attendants</li></ul></li></ul></div> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Date premiered</th><td class="infobox-data"><abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1592</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Original language</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Early_Modern_English" title="Early Modern English">Early Modern English</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Genre</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Shakespearean_comedy" title="Shakespearean comedy">Shakespearean comedy</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i><b>The Comedy of Errors</b></i> is one of <a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>'s early plays. It is his shortest and one of his most <a href="/wiki/Farce" title="Farce">farcical</a> <a href="/wiki/Shakespearean_comedy" title="Shakespearean comedy">comedies</a>, with a major part of the humour coming from <a href="/wiki/Slapstick" title="Slapstick">slapstick</a> and mistaken identity, in addition to <a href="/wiki/Pun" title="Pun">puns</a> and <a href="/wiki/Word_play" title="Word play">word play</a>. It has been adapted for opera, stage, screen and musical theatre numerous times worldwide. In the centuries following its premiere, the play's title has entered the popular English lexicon as an idiom for "an event or series of events made ridiculous by the number of errors that were made throughout".<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Set in the <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greece" title="Ancient Greece">Greek</a> city of <a href="/wiki/Ephesus" title="Ephesus">Ephesus</a>, <i>The Comedy of Errors</i> tells the story of two sets of identical twins who were <a href="/wiki/Babies_switched_at_birth" title="Babies switched at birth">accidentally separated at birth</a>. Antipholus of <a href="/wiki/Syracuse,_Sicily" title="Syracuse, Sicily">Syracuse</a> and his servant, Dromio of Syracuse, arrive in Ephesus, which turns out to be the home of their twin brothers, Antipholus of Ephesus and his servant, Dromio of Ephesus. When the Syracusans encounter the friends and families of their twins, a series of wild mishaps based on mistaken identities lead to wrongful beatings, a near-<a href="/wiki/Seduction" title="Seduction">seduction</a>, the arrest of Antipholus of Ephesus, and false accusations of <a href="/wiki/Infidelity" title="Infidelity">infidelity</a>, theft, madness, and <a href="/wiki/Demonic_possession" class="mw-redirect" title="Demonic possession">demonic possession</a>. </p> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Comedy_of_Errors-Dromios.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Comedy_of_Errors-Dromios.jpg/250px-Comedy_of_Errors-Dromios.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="188" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Comedy_of_Errors-Dromios.jpg/375px-Comedy_of_Errors-Dromios.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Comedy_of_Errors-Dromios.jpg/500px-Comedy_of_Errors-Dromios.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1750" data-file-height="1313" /></a><figcaption>The twin Dromios in a <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Repertory_Theatre" title="Pacific Repertory Theatre">Carmel Shakespeare Festival</a> production, <a href="/wiki/Forest_Theater" title="Forest Theater">Forest Theater</a>, Carmel, California, 2008</figcaption></figure> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Synopsis">Synopsis</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Comedy_of_Errors&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Synopsis"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Act_I">Act I</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Comedy_of_Errors&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Act I"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Because a law forbids merchants from Syracuse from entering Ephesus, elderly Syracusan trader Aegeon faces execution when he is discovered in the city. He can only escape by paying a fine of a thousand marks. He tells his sad story to Solinus, Duke of Ephesus. In his youth, Aegeon married and had twin sons. On the same day, a poor woman without a job also gave birth to twin boys, and he purchased these as servants to his sons. Soon afterward, the family made a sea voyage and was hit by a tempest. Aegeon lashed himself to the main-mast with one son and one servant, and his wife took the other two infants. His wife was rescued by one boat, Aegeon by another. Aegeon never again saw his wife or the children with her. Recently his son Antipholus, now grown, and his son's servant, Dromio, left Syracuse to find their brothers. When Antipholus did not return, Aegeon set out in search of him. The Duke is moved by this story and grants Aegeon one day to pay his fine. </p><p>That same day, Antipholus arrives in Ephesus, searching for his brother. He sends Dromio to deposit some money at The Centaur, an inn. He is confounded when the identical Dromio of Ephesus appears almost immediately, denying any knowledge of the money and asking him home to dinner, where his wife is waiting. Antipholus, thinking his servant is making insubordinate jokes, beats Dromio of Ephesus. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Act_II">Act II</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Comedy_of_Errors&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Act II"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Dromio of Ephesus returns to his mistress, Adriana, saying that her "husband" refused to come back to his house, and even pretended not to know her. Adriana, concerned that her husband's eye is straying, takes this news as confirmation of her suspicions. </p><p>Antipholus of Syracuse, who complains "I could not speak with Dromio since at first, I sent him from the mart," meets up with Dromio of Syracuse who now denies making a "joke" about Antipholus having a wife. Antipholus begins beating him. Suddenly, Adriana rushes up to Antipholus of Syracuse and begs him not to leave her. The Syracusans cannot but attribute these strange events to witchcraft, remarking that Ephesus is known as a warren for witches. Antipholus and Dromio go off with this strange woman, the one to eat dinner and the other to keep the gate. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Act_III">Act III</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Comedy_of_Errors&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Act III"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Inside the house, Antipholus of Syracuse discovers that he is very attracted to his "wife's" sister, Luciana, telling her "train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note / To drown me in thy sister's flood of tears." She is flattered by his attention but worried about their moral implications. After she exits, Dromio of Syracuse announces that he has discovered that he has a wife: Nell, a hideous kitchen-maid. The Syracusans decide to leave as soon as possible, and Dromio runs off to make travel plans. Antipholus of Syracuse is then confronted by Angelo of Ephesus, a goldsmith, who claims that Antipholus ordered a chain from him. Antipholus is forced to accept the chain, and Angelo says that he will return for payment. </p><p>Antipholus of Ephesus returns home for dinner and is enraged to find that he is rudely refused entry to his own house by Dromio of Syracuse, who is keeping the gate. He is ready to break down the door, but his friends persuade him not to make a scene. He decides, instead, to dine with a courtesan. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Act_IV">Act IV</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Comedy_of_Errors&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Act IV"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Antipholus of Ephesus dispatches Dromio of Ephesus to purchase a rope so that he can beat his wife Adriana for locking him out, then is accosted by Angelo, who tells him "I thought to have ta'en you at the Porpentine" and asks to be reimbursed for the chain. He denies ever seeing it and is promptly arrested. As he is being led away, Dromio of Syracuse arrives, whereupon Antipholus dispatches him back to Adriana's house to get money for his bail. After completing this errand, Dromio of Syracuse mistakenly delivers the money to Antipholus of Syracuse. The Courtesan spies Antipholus wearing the gold chain, and says he promised it to her in exchange for her ring. The Syracusans deny this and flee. The Courtesan resolves to tell Adriana that her husband is insane. Dromio of Ephesus returns to the arrested Antipholus of Ephesus, with the rope. Antipholus is infuriated. Adriana, Luciana, and the Courtesan enter with a conjurer named Pinch, who tries to exorcize the Ephesians, who are bound and taken to Adriana's house. The Syracusans enter, carrying swords, and everybody runs off for fear: believing that they are the Ephesians, out for vengeance after somehow escaping their bonds. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Act_V">Act V</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Comedy_of_Errors&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Act V"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Adriana reappears with henchmen, who attempt to bind the Syracusans. They take sanctuary in a nearby priory, where the Abbess resolutely protects them. Suddenly, the Abbess enters with the Syracusan twins, and everyone begins to understand the confused events of the day. Not only are the two sets of twins reunited, but the Abbess reveals that she is Aegeon’s wife, Emilia. The Duke pardons Aegeon. All exit into the abbey to celebrate the reunification of the family. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Text_and_date">Text and date</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Comedy_of_Errors&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Text and date"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:First-page-first-folio-comedy-of-errors.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/First-page-first-folio-comedy-of-errors.jpg/220px-First-page-first-folio-comedy-of-errors.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="164" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/First-page-first-folio-comedy-of-errors.jpg/330px-First-page-first-folio-comedy-of-errors.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/First-page-first-folio-comedy-of-errors.jpg/440px-First-page-first-folio-comedy-of-errors.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1536" data-file-height="1143" /></a><figcaption>The first page of the play, printed in the <a href="/wiki/First_Folio" title="First Folio">First Folio</a> of 1623</figcaption></figure> <p>The play is a modernised adaptation of <i><a href="/wiki/Menaechmi" title="Menaechmi">Menaechmi</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Plautus" title="Plautus">Plautus</a>. As <a href="/wiki/William_Warner_(poet)" title="William Warner (poet)">William Warner's</a> translation of the classical drama was entered into the <a href="/wiki/Stationers%27_Register" title="Stationers' Register">Register</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Worshipful_Company_of_Stationers_and_Newspaper_Makers" title="Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers">Stationers Company</a> on 10 June 1594, published in 1595, and dedicated to <a href="/wiki/Henry_Carey,_1st_Baron_Hunsdon" title="Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon">Lord Hunsdon</a>, the patron of the <a href="/wiki/Lord_Chamberlain%27s_Men" title="Lord Chamberlain's Men">Lord Chamberlain's Men</a>, it has been supposed that Shakespeare might have seen the translation in manuscript before it was printed – though it is equally possible that he knew the play in the original Latin. </p><p>The play contains a topical reference to the <a href="/wiki/French_Wars_of_Religion" title="French Wars of Religion">wars of succession in France</a>, which would fit any date from 1589 to 1595. Charles Whitworth argues that <i>The Comedy of Errors</i> was written "in the latter part of 1594" on the basis of historical records and textual similarities with other plays Shakespeare wrote around this time.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The play was not published until it appeared in the <a href="/wiki/First_Folio" title="First Folio">First Folio</a> in 1623. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Analysis_and_criticism">Analysis and criticism</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Comedy_of_Errors&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Analysis and criticism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>For centuries, scholars have found little thematic depth in <i>The Comedy of Errors</i>. <a href="/wiki/Harold_Bloom" title="Harold Bloom">Harold Bloom</a>, however, wrote that it "reveals Shakespeare's magnificence at the art of comedy",<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and praised the work as showing "such skill, indeed mastery – in action, incipient character, and stagecraft – that it far outshines the three <i>Henry VI</i> plays and the rather lame comedy <i>The Two Gentlemen of Verona</i>".<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Stanley_Wells" title="Stanley Wells">Stanley Wells</a> also referred to it as the first Shakespeare play "in which mastery of craft is displayed".<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The play was not a particular favourite on the eighteenth-century stage because it failed to offer the kind of striking roles that actors such as <a href="/wiki/David_Garrick" title="David Garrick">David Garrick</a> could exploit. </p><p>The play was particularly notable in one respect. In the earlier eighteenth century, some critics followed the French critical standard of judging the quality of a play by its adherence to the <a href="/wiki/Classical_unities" title="Classical unities">classical unities</a>, as specified by <a href="/wiki/Aristotle" title="Aristotle">Aristotle</a> in the fourth century BC. <i>The Comedy of Errors</i> and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Tempest" title="The Tempest">The Tempest</a></i> were the only two of Shakespeare's plays to comply with this standard.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Law professor Eric Heinze, however, argues that particularly notable in the play is a series of social relationships, which is in crisis as it sheds its feudal forms and confronts the market forces of early modern Europe.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Performance">Performance</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Comedy_of_Errors&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Performance"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Two early performances of <i>The Comedy of Errors</i> are recorded. One, by "a company of base and common fellows", is mentioned in the <i>Gesta Grayorum</i> ("The Deeds of Gray") as having occurred in <a href="/wiki/Gray%27s_Inn" title="Gray's Inn">Gray's Inn</a> Hall on 28 December 1594 during the <a href="/wiki/Revels_(Inns_of_Court)" title="Revels (Inns of Court)">inn's revels</a>. The second also took place on "<a href="/wiki/Innocent%27s_Day" class="mw-redirect" title="Innocent's Day">Innocents' Day</a>", but ten years later: 28 December 1604, at Court.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Adaptations">Adaptations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Comedy_of_Errors&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Adaptations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:ComedyErrors1.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/ComedyErrors1.JPG/220px-ComedyErrors1.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="315" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/ComedyErrors1.JPG/330px-ComedyErrors1.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/ComedyErrors1.JPG/440px-ComedyErrors1.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1100" data-file-height="1574" /></a><figcaption>The Dromios from a <a href="/wiki/Book_frontispiece" title="Book frontispiece">frontispiece</a> dated 1890</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Theatrical">Theatrical</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Comedy_of_Errors&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Theatrical"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Like many of Shakespeare's plays, <i>The Comedy of Errors</i> was adapted and rewritten extensively, particularly from the 18th century on, with varying reception from audiences. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Classical_adaptations">Classical adaptations</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Comedy_of_Errors&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Classical adaptations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Every_Body_Mistaken" class="mw-redirect" title="Every Body Mistaken">Every Body Mistaken</a></i> is a 1716 "revival" and directorial adaptation of Shakespeare's play by an anonymous author.<sup id="cite_ref-auto2_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto2-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>See If You Like It</i>; <i>or, 'Tis All a Mistake</i>, an anonymous adaptation staged in 1734 at <a href="/wiki/Royal_Opera_House" title="Royal Opera House">Covent Garden</a>, performed in two acts with text from Plautus and Shakespeare. Shakespeare purists considered it to be the "worst alteration" available.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-auto1_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto1-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>The Twins,</i> by <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Hull_(actor)" title="Thomas Hull (actor)">Thomas Hull</a> produced an adaptation for Covent Garden in 1739, where Hull played Aegon. This production was more faithful to Shakespeare's text, and played for several years.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This adaptation was performed only once in 1762, and was published in 1770. Hull adapted the play a second time as <i>The Comedy of Errors. With Alterations from Shakespeare.</i> This version was staged frequently from 1779 onward, and was published in 1793.<sup id="cite_ref-auto1_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto1-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Hull added songs, intensified the love interest, and elaborated the recognition scene. He also expanded roles for women, including Adriana's cousin Hermia, who sang various songs.<sup id="cite_ref-auto2_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto2-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>The Twins; or, Which is Which? A Farce. In Three Acts</i> by William Woods, published in 1780. Produced at the <a href="/wiki/Theatre_Royal,_Edinburgh" title="Theatre Royal, Edinburgh">Theatre-Royal</a>, Edinburgh.<sup id="cite_ref-auto1_11-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto1-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This adaptation reduced the play to a three-act farce, apparently believing that a longer run time should "pall upon an audience." John Philip Kemble (see below) seemed to have extended and based his own adaptation upon <i>The Twins.</i><sup id="cite_ref-auto2_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto2-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Oh! It's Impossible</i> by <a href="/wiki/John_Philip_Kemble" title="John Philip Kemble">John Philip Kemble</a>, was produced in 1780. This adaptation caused a stir by casting the two Dromios as black-a-moors.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was acted in York, but not printed.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Later, nearly 20 years after slavery had been abolished within British domains, <a href="/wiki/James_Boaden" title="James Boaden">James Boaden</a> wrote, "I incline to think [Kemble's] maturer judgement would certainly have consigned the whole impression to the flames.")<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Modern_adaptations">Modern adaptations</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Comedy_of_Errors&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Modern adaptations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Flying_Karamazov_Brothers" class="mw-redirect" title="Flying Karamazov Brothers">Flying Karamazov Brothers</a> performed a unique adaptation, produced by <a href="/wiki/Robert_Woodruff_(director)" title="Robert Woodruff (director)">Robert Woodruff</a>, first at the <a href="/wiki/Goodman_Theatre" title="Goodman Theatre">Goodman Theater</a> in Chicago in 1983, and then again in 1987 at New York's <a href="/wiki/Vivian_Beaumont_Theater" title="Vivian Beaumont Theater">Vivian Beaumont Theater</a> in <a href="/wiki/Lincoln_Center" title="Lincoln Center">Lincoln Center</a>. This latter presentation was filmed and aired on <a href="/wiki/MTV" title="MTV">MTV</a> and <a href="/wiki/PBS" title="PBS">PBS</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>The Comedy of Errors</i> adapted and directed by Sean Graney in 2010 updated Shakespeare's text to modern language, with occasional Shakespearean text, for <a href="/wiki/Court_Theatre_(Chicago)" title="Court Theatre (Chicago)">The Court Theatre</a>. The play appears to be more of a "translation" into modern-esque language, than a reimagination.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The play received mixed reviews, mostly criticizing Graney's modern interpolations and abrupt ending.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>15 Villainous Fools,</i> written and performed by Olivia Atwood and Maggie Seymour, a two-woman clown duo, produced by The 601 Theatre Company.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The play was performed several times, premiering in 2015 at <a href="/wiki/Bowdoin_College" title="Bowdoin College">Bowdoin College</a>, before touring fringe festivals including Portland, San Diego, Washington, DC, Providence, and New York City. Following this run, the show was picked up by the <a href="/wiki/Peoples_Improv_Theater" title="Peoples Improv Theater">People's Improv Theater</a> for an extended run.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While the play included pop culture references and original raps, it kept true to Shakespeare's text for the characters of the Dromios.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>A Comedy of Heirors, or The Imposters</i> by feminist <a href="/wiki/Verse_drama_and_dramatic_verse" title="Verse drama and dramatic verse">verse</a> playwright, <a href="/wiki/Emily_C._A._Snyder" title="Emily C. A. Snyder">Emily C. A. Snyder</a>, performed a staged reading through Turn to Flesh Productions<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in 2017, featuring <a href="/wiki/Abby_Wilde" title="Abby Wilde">Abby Wilde</a> as Glorielle of Syracuse. The play received acclaim, being named a finalist with the <a href="/wiki/American_Shakespeare_Center" title="American Shakespeare Center">American Shakespeare Center</a>, as part of the <a href="/wiki/American_Shakespeare_Center#Shakespeare's_New_Contemporaries_(SNC)" title="American Shakespeare Center">Shakespeare's New Contemporaries</a> program,<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as well as "The Top 15 NYC Plays of '17" by <i>A Work Unfinishing.</i><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The play focuses on two sets of female twins, who also interact with Shakespeare's Antipholi. The play is in conversation with several of Shakespeare's comedies, including characters from <i>The Comedy of Errors, <a href="/wiki/Twelfth_Night" title="Twelfth Night">Twelfth Night</a>, <a href="/wiki/As_You_Like_It" title="As You Like It">As You Like It</a>,</i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Much_Ado_About_Nothing" title="Much Ado About Nothing">Much Ado About Nothing</a></i>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Opera">Opera</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Comedy_of_Errors&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Opera"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>On 27 December 1786, the opera <i><a href="/wiki/Gli_equivoci" title="Gli equivoci">Gli equivoci</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Storace" title="Stephen Storace">Stephen Storace</a> received its première at the <a href="/wiki/Burgtheater" title="Burgtheater">Burgtheater</a> in Vienna. The <a href="/wiki/Libretto" title="Libretto">libretto</a>, by <a href="/wiki/Lorenzo_da_Ponte" class="mw-redirect" title="Lorenzo da Ponte">Lorenzo da Ponte</a>, Mozart's frequent librettist, worked off a French translation of Shakespeare's play, follows the play's plot fairly closely, though some characters were renamed, Aegeon and Emilia are cut, and Euphemio (previously Antipholus) and Dromio are shipwrecked on Ephesus.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frederic_Reynolds" class="mw-redirect" title="Frederic Reynolds">Frederic Reynolds</a> staged an operatic version in 1819, with music by <a href="/wiki/Henry_Bishop_(composer)" title="Henry Bishop (composer)">Henry Bishop</a> supplemented lyrics from various Shakespeare plays, and sonnets set to melodies by <a href="/wiki/Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart" title="Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart">Mozart</a>, <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Augustine_Arne" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas Augustine Arne">Thomas Arne</a>, and others.<sup id="cite_ref-auto2_9-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto2-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The opera was performed at Covent Gardens under <a href="/wiki/Charles_Kemble" title="Charles Kemble">Charles Kemble</a>'s management. The opera included several additional scenes from the play, which were considered necessary for the sake of introducing songs. The same operatic adaptation was revived in 1824 for <a href="/wiki/Theatre_Royal,_Drury_Lane" title="Theatre Royal, Drury Lane">Drury Lane</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_10-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Various other adaptations were performed down to 1855 when <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Phelps" title="Samuel Phelps">Samuel Phelps</a> revived the Shakespearean original at <a href="/wiki/Sadler%27s_Wells_Theatre" title="Sadler's Wells Theatre">Sadler's Wells Theatre</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The Czech composer <a href="/wiki/I%C5%A1a_Krej%C4%8D%C3%AD" title="Iša Krejčí">Iša Krejčí</a>'s 1943 opera <i><a href="/wiki/Pozdvi%C5%BEen%C3%AD_v_Efesu" title="Pozdvižení v Efesu">Pozdvižení v Efesu</a></i> (Turmoil in Ephesus) is based on the play.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Musicals">Musicals</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Comedy_of_Errors&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Musicals"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The play has been adapted as a musical several times, frequently by inserting period music into the light comedy. Some musical adaptations include a Victorian musical comedy (Arts Theatre, Cambridge, England, 1951), Brechtian folk opera (<a href="/wiki/Arts_Theatre" title="Arts Theatre">Arts Theatre</a>, London, 1956), and a two-ring circus (<a href="/wiki/Delacorte_Theater" title="Delacorte Theater">Delacorte Theater</a>, New York, 1967). </p><p>Fully original musical adaptations include: </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Boys_from_Syracuse" title="The Boys from Syracuse">The Boys from Syracuse</a></i>, composed by <a href="/wiki/Richard_Rodgers" title="Richard Rodgers">Richard Rodgers</a> and lyrics by <a href="/wiki/Lorenz_Hart" title="Lorenz Hart">Lorenz Hart</a>. The play premiered on <a href="/wiki/Broadway_theatre" title="Broadway theatre">Broadway</a> in 1938 and <a href="/wiki/Off-Broadway" title="Off-Broadway">Off-Broadway</a> in 1963, with later productions including a <a href="/wiki/West_End_theatre" title="West End theatre">West End</a> run in 1963 and in a Broadway revival in 2002. <a href="/wiki/The_Boys_from_Syracuse_(film)" title="The Boys from Syracuse (film)">A film adaptation</a> was released in 1940.</li> <li><i>A New Comedy of Errors, or Too Many Twins</i> (1940), adapted from Plautus, Shakespeare and <a href="/wiki/Moli%C3%A8re" title="Molière">Molière</a>, staged in modern dress at London's Mercury Theatre.<sup id="cite_ref-auto2_9-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto2-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>The Comedy of Errors</i> (1972) adaptation by James McCloskey, music and lyrics by Bruce Kimmel. Premiered at Los Angeles City College and went on to the American College Theatre Festival.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Comedy_of_Errors_(musical)" title="The Comedy of Errors (musical)">The Comedy of Errors</a></i> is a musical with book and lyrics by <a href="/wiki/Trevor_Nunn" title="Trevor Nunn">Trevor Nunn</a>, and music by <a href="/wiki/Guy_Woolfenden" title="Guy Woolfenden">Guy Woolfenden</a>. It was produced for the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Shakespeare_Company" title="Royal Shakespeare Company">Royal Shakespeare Company</a> in 1976, winning the <a href="/wiki/Laurence_Olivier_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Laurence Olivier Award">Laurence Olivier Award</a> for best musical on its transfer to the <a href="/wiki/West_End_theatre" title="West End theatre">West End</a> in 1977.</li> <li><i>Oh, Brother!</i> is a musical comedy in one act, with music by Michael Valenti and books and lyrics by Donald Driver, which premiered at <a href="/wiki/ANTA_Theatre" class="mw-redirect" title="ANTA Theatre">ANTA Theatre</a> in 1981, also directed by Driver. The musical takes place during a revolution in an oil rich Middle Eastern country on the Persian Gulf in a quaint resort town where its populace of merchants and revolutionaries mix Eastern tradition with Western consumerism.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>The New York Times</i> gave it a poor review, criticising Driver's heavy handedness, while praising some of the music and performances.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Bomb-itty_of_Errors" title="The Bomb-itty of Errors">The Bomb-itty of Errors</a></i>, a one-act <a href="/wiki/Hip-hop" title="Hip-hop">hip-hop</a> musical adaptation, by <a href="/wiki/Jordan_Allen-Dutton" title="Jordan Allen-Dutton">Jordan Allen-Dutton</a>, Jason Catalano, <a href="/wiki/Gregory_J._Qaiyum" class="mw-redirect" title="Gregory J. Qaiyum">Gregory J. Qaiyum</a>, Jeffrey Qaiyum, and <a href="/wiki/Erik_Weiner" title="Erik Weiner">Erik Weinner</a>, won 1st Prize at <a href="/wiki/HBO" title="HBO">HBO</a>'s <a href="/wiki/The_Comedy_Festival" title="The Comedy Festival">Comedy Festival</a> and was nominated opposite <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Sondheim" title="Stephen Sondheim">Stephen Sondheim</a> for the Best Lyrics <a href="/wiki/Drama_Desk_Award" title="Drama Desk Award">Drama Desk Award</a> in 2001.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <ul><li>In 1940 the film <i><a href="/wiki/The_Boys_from_Syracuse_(film)" title="The Boys from Syracuse (film)">The Boys from Syracuse</a></i> was released, starring Alan Jones and Joe Penner as Antipholus and Dromio. It was a musical, loosely based on <i>The Comedy of Errors</i>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Novel">Novel</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Comedy_of_Errors&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Novel"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In India, <a href="/wiki/Ishwar_Chandra_Vidyasagar" title="Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar">Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar</a> adapted Shakespeare's play in his Bengali novel <i>Bhranti Bilash</i> (1869). Vidyasagar's efforts were part of the process of championing Shakespeare and the Romantics during the <a href="/wiki/Bengal_Renaissance" title="Bengal Renaissance">Bengal Renaissance</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Film">Film</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Comedy_of_Errors&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Film"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The film <i><a href="/wiki/Our_Relations" title="Our Relations">Our Relations</a></i> (1936) starring <i><a href="/wiki/Stan_Laurel" title="Stan Laurel">Stan Laurel</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Oliver_Hardy" title="Oliver Hardy">Oliver Hardy</a></i>, was adapted from the <i><a href="/wiki/W._W._Jacobs" title="W. W. Jacobs">W. W. Jacobs</a></i> story "The Money Box", but there are no twins in the Jacobs story. Our Relations owes its central conceit to The Comedy of Errors.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research" title="Wikipedia:No original research"><span title="The material near this tag possibly contains original research. (October 2024)">original research?</span></a></i>]</sup> As in the Shakespeare play, the story revolves around the confusion of two pairs of identical twins: one set of Laurel brothers named "Stan" and "Alf", and one set of Hardy brothers named "Oliver" and "Bert". Stan and Oliver think Alf and Bert were killed at sea. As the story opens, Alf and Bert have just arrived via ship at the same seaport where, unbeknownst to them, their married twin brothers Stan and Oliver live.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> One nod to the movie's inspiration is a running gag: whenever Stan and Ollie say the same thing at the same time, they immediately perform a childhood ritual that begins: "Shakespeare...Longfellow..."<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research" title="Wikipedia:No original research"><span title="The material near this tag possibly contains original research. (October 2024)">original research?</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The <i><a href="/wiki/Three_Stooges" class="mw-redirect" title="Three Stooges">Three Stooges</a></i> film <i><a href="/wiki/A_Merry_Mix_Up" title="A Merry Mix Up">A Merry Mix Up</a></i> (1957) starring <i><a href="/wiki/Moe_Howard" title="Moe Howard">Moe Howard</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Larry_Fine" title="Larry Fine">Larry Fine</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Joe_Besser" title="Joe Besser">Joe Besser</a></i> expands the confusion by telling the story of three sets of identical triplets: Bachelors Moe, Larry and Joe; husbands Max, Louie and Jack; and newly-engaged brothers Morris, Luke and Jeff. The triplets can only be distinguished by their choices of neckties, bow ties, or no tie at all.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The film <i><a href="/wiki/Start_the_Revolution_Without_Me" title="Start the Revolution Without Me">Start the Revolution Without Me</a></i> (1970) starring <a href="/wiki/Gene_Wilder" title="Gene Wilder">Gene Wilder</a> and <a href="/wiki/Donald_Sutherland" title="Donald Sutherland">Donald Sutherland</a> involves two pairs of twins, one of each of which is switched at birth; one set is raised in an aristocratic, the other in a peasant family, who meet during the French Revolution. </p><p>The film <i><a href="/wiki/Big_Business_(1988_film)" title="Big Business (1988 film)">Big Business</a></i> (1988) is a modern take on <i>The Comedy of Errors</i>, with female twins instead of male. <a href="/wiki/Bette_Midler" title="Bette Midler">Bette Midler</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lily_Tomlin" title="Lily Tomlin">Lily Tomlin</a> star in the film as two sets of twins separated at birth, much like the characters in Shakespeare's play. </p><p>The short film <i>The Complete Walk: The Comedy of Errors</i> was made in 2016 and starred <a href="/wiki/Phil_Davis_(actor)" title="Phil Davis (actor)">Phil Davis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Omid_Djalili" title="Omid Djalili">Omid Djalili</a> and <a href="/wiki/Boothby_Graffoe_(comedian)" title="Boothby Graffoe (comedian)">Boothby Graffoe</a>. </p><p>Indian cinema has made nine films based on the play: </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Bhrantibilas" class="mw-redirect" title="Bhrantibilas">Bhrantibilas</a></i> (1963 Bengali film) starring <a href="/wiki/Uttam_Kumar" title="Uttam Kumar">Uttam Kumar</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Do_Dooni_Char" class="mw-redirect" title="Do Dooni Char">Do Dooni Char</a></i> starring <a href="/wiki/Kishore_Kumar" title="Kishore Kumar">Kishore Kumar</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Angoor_(1982_film)" title="Angoor (1982 film)">Angoor</a></i> starring <a href="/wiki/Sanjeev_Kumar" title="Sanjeev Kumar">Sanjeev Kumar</a></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oorantha_Golanta_(1989_film)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Oorantha Golanta (1989 film) (page does not exist)">Oorantha Golanta</a></i> starring <a href="/wiki/Chandra_Mohan_(Telugu_actor)" title="Chandra Mohan (Telugu actor)">Chandra Mohan</a></li> <li>A movie in the <a href="/wiki/Kannada_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Kannada language">Kannada language</a> titled <i><a href="/wiki/Ulta_Palta_(1997_film)" title="Ulta Palta (1997 film)">Ulta Palta</a></i> starring <a href="/wiki/Ramesh_Aravind" title="Ramesh Aravind">Ramesh Aravind</a></li> <li>A movie in the <a href="/wiki/Telugu_language" title="Telugu language">Telugu language</a> titled <i><a href="/wiki/Ulta_Palta_(1998_film)" title="Ulta Palta (1998 film)">Ulta Palta</a></i> starring <a href="/wiki/Rajendra_Prasad_(actor)" title="Rajendra Prasad (actor)">Rajendra Prasad</a></li> <li>A movie in the <a href="/wiki/Tamil_language" title="Tamil language">Tamil language</a> titled <i><a href="/wiki/Ambuttu_Imbuttu_Embuttu" title="Ambuttu Imbuttu Embuttu">Ambuttu Imbuttu Embuttu</a></i></li> <li>A movie in the <a href="/wiki/Tulu_language" title="Tulu language">Tulu language</a> titled <i>Aamait Asal Eemait Kusal</i> starring <a href="/wiki/Naveen_D_Padil" class="mw-redirect" title="Naveen D Padil">Naveen D Padil</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Double_Di_Trouble" title="Double Di Trouble">Double Di Trouble</a></i> (2014 Punjabi Film) directed by Smeep Kang and starring <a href="/wiki/Dharmendra" title="Dharmendra">Dharmendra</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gippy_Grewal" title="Gippy Grewal">Gippy Grewal</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Local_Kung_Fu_2" title="Local Kung Fu 2">Local Kung Fu 2</a></i> (2017 <a href="/wiki/Assamese_language" title="Assamese language">Assamese</a> martial arts film)</li> <li>2022 movie in Hindi language titled <i><a href="/wiki/Cirkus_(film)" title="Cirkus (film)">Cirkus</a></i> starring <a href="/wiki/Ranveer_Singh" title="Ranveer Singh">Ranveer Singh</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Television">Television</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Comedy_of_Errors&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Television"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Roger_Daltrey" title="Roger Daltrey">Roger Daltrey</a> played both Dromios in <a href="/wiki/BBC_Television_Shakespeare#The_Comedy_of_Errors" title="BBC Television Shakespeare">the BBC complete works series</a> directed by <a href="/wiki/James_Cellan_Jones" title="James Cellan Jones">James Cellan Jones</a> in 1983.</li> <li>A two-part TV adaptation was produced in 1978 in the USSR, with a <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russian</a>–<a href="/wiki/Georgia_(country)" title="Georgia (country)">Georgian</a> cast of notable stage actors.</li> <li>The <i><a href="/wiki/Inside_No._9" title="Inside No. 9">Inside No. 9</a></i> episode "Zanzibar" (season 4, episode 1) was based on The Comedy of Errors</li> <li>Season 13 Episode 4 of <a href="/wiki/Bob%27s_Burgers" title="Bob's Burgers">Bob's Burgers</a>: 'Comet-y of Errors' is also a reference to Shakespeare's play.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Comedy_of_Errors&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_idioms_attributed_to_Shakespeare" title="List of idioms attributed to Shakespeare">List of idioms attributed to Shakespeare</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Comedy_of_Errors&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: 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.cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/comedy+of+errors">"Definition of 'Comedy of Errors'<span class="cs1-kern-right"></span>"</a>. <i>merriam-webster.com</i>. 24 March 2024.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=merriam-webster.com&rft.atitle=Definition+of+%27Comedy+of+Errors%27&rft.date=2024-03-24&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.merriam-webster.com%2Fdictionary%2Fcomedy%2Bof%2Berrors&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Comedy+of+Errors" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Charles Walters Whitworth, ed., <i>The Comedy of Errors</i>, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003; pp. 1–10. <sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="Please supply an ISBN for this book.">ISBN missing</span></a></i>]</sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBloom2010" class="citation book cs1">Bloom, Harold, ed. (2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=FaZP7cR5Z04C"><i>The Comedy of Errors</i></a>. Infobase Publishing. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1438134406" title="Special:BookSources/978-1438134406"><bdi>978-1438134406</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Comedy+of+Errors&rft.pub=Infobase+Publishing&rft.date=2010&rft.isbn=978-1438134406&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DFaZP7cR5Z04C&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Comedy+of+Errors" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBloom" class="citation news cs1">Bloom, Harold. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/b/bloom-shakespeare.html">"Shakespeare: The Comedy of Errors"</a>. <i>The New York Times</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">5 May</span> 2018</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&rft.atitle=Shakespeare%3A+The+Comedy+of+Errors&rft.aulast=Bloom&rft.aufirst=Harold&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.nytimes.com%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2Fbooks%2Ffirst%2Fb%2Fbloom-shakespeare.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Comedy+of+Errors" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBillington2014" class="citation web cs1">Billington, Michael (2 April 2014). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/apr/02/best-shakespeare-productions-the-comedy-of-errors">"Best Shakespeare productions: The Comedy of Errors"</a>. <i>The Guardian</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">15 May</span> 2018</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=The+Guardian&rft.atitle=Best+Shakespeare+productions%3A+The+Comedy+of+Errors&rft.date=2014-04-02&rft.aulast=Billington&rft.aufirst=Michael&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fstage%2F2014%2Fapr%2F02%2Fbest-shakespeare-productions-the-comedy-of-errors&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Comedy+of+Errors" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBloom2010" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Harold_Bloom" title="Harold Bloom">Bloom, Harold</a> (2010). Marson, Janyce (ed.). <i>The Comedy of Errors</i>. Bloom's Literary Criticism. 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(ed.) <i>The Comedy of Errors</i> (The Pelican Shakespeare, 2nd edition; London, Penguin, 1999)</li> <li>Dorsch, T.S. (ed.) <i>The Comedy of Errors</i> (The New Cambridge Shakespeare; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988; 2nd edition 2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._Dover_Wilson" title="J. Dover Wilson">Dover Wilson, John</a> (ed.) <i>The Comedy of Errors</i> (The New Shakespeare; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1922; 2nd edition 1962)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/G._Blakemore_Evans" title="G. Blakemore Evans">Evans, G. Blakemore</a> (ed.) <i><a href="/wiki/Riverside_Shakespeare" title="Riverside Shakespeare">The Riverside Shakespeare</a></i> (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974; 2nd edn., 1997)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/R._A._Foakes" title="R. A. Foakes">Foakes, R.A.</a> (ed.) <i>The Comedy of Errors</i> (The Arden Shakespeare, 2nd Series; London: Arden, 1962)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stephen_Greenblatt" title="Stephen Greenblatt">Greenblatt, Stephen</a>; Cohen, Walter; Howard, Jean E., and Maus, Katharine Eisaman (eds.) <i>The Norton Shakespeare: Based on the Oxford Shakespeare</i> (London: Norton, 1997)</li> <li>Jorgensen, Paul A. (ed.) <i>The Comedy of Errors</i> (The Pelican Shakespeare; London, Penguin, 1969; revised edition 1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harry_Levin" title="Harry Levin">Levin, Harry</a> (ed.) <i>The Comedy of Errors</i> (Signet Classic Shakespeare; New York: Signet, 1965; revised edition, 1989; 2nd revised edition 2002)</li> <li>Martin, Randall (ed.) <i>The Comedy of Errors</i> (The New Penguin Shakespeare, 2nd edition; London: Penguin, 2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stanley_Wells" title="Stanley Wells">Wells, Stanley</a> (ed.) <i>The Comedy of Errors</i> (The New Penguin Shakespeare; London: Penguin, 1972)</li> <li>SwipeSpeare <i>The Comedy of Errors</i> (Golgotha Press, Inc., 2011)</li> <li>Wells, Stanley; Taylor, Gary; Jowett, John and Montgomery, William (eds.) <i>The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works</i> (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986; 2nd edn., 2005)</li> <li>Werstine, Paul and Mowat, Barbara A. (eds.) <i>The Comedy of Errors</i> (Folger Shakespeare Library; Washington: <a href="/wiki/Simon_%26_Schuster" title="Simon & Schuster">Simon & Schuster</a>, 1996)</li> <li>Whitworth, Charles (ed.) <i>The Comedy of Errors</i> (The Oxford Shakespeare: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002)</li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Comedy_of_Errors&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation journal cs1">O'Brien, Robert Viking (1996). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/02-1/obrishak.html">"The Madness of Syracusan Antipholus"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Early_Modern_Literary_Studies" 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scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Shakespeare%27s_plays" title="Shakespeare's plays">Plays</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Shakespearean_comedy" title="Shakespearean comedy">Comedies</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/All%27s_Well_That_Ends_Well" title="All's Well That Ends Well">All's Well That Ends Well</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/As_You_Like_It" title="As You Like It">As You Like It</a></i></li> <li><i><a class="mw-selflink selflink">The Comedy of Errors</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Cymbeline" title="Cymbeline">Cymbeline</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Love%27s_Labour%27s_Lost" title="Love's Labour's Lost">Love's Labour's Lost</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Measure_for_Measure" title="Measure for Measure">Measure for Measure</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Merchant_of_Venice" title="The Merchant of Venice">The Merchant of Venice</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Merry_Wives_of_Windsor" title="The Merry Wives of Windsor">The Merry Wives of Windsor</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Midsummer_Night%27s_Dream" title="A Midsummer Night's Dream">A Midsummer Night's Dream</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Much_Ado_About_Nothing" title="Much Ado About Nothing">Much Ado About Nothing</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pericles,_Prince_of_Tyre" title="Pericles, Prince of Tyre">Pericles, Prince of Tyre</a></i> ✻</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Taming_of_the_Shrew" title="The Taming of the Shrew">The Taming of the Shrew</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Tempest" title="The Tempest">The Tempest</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Twelfth_Night" title="Twelfth Night">Twelfth Night</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Two_Gentlemen_of_Verona" title="The Two Gentlemen of Verona">The Two Gentlemen of Verona</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Two_Noble_Kinsmen" title="The Two Noble Kinsmen">The Two Noble Kinsmen</a></i> ✻</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Winter%27s_Tale" title="The Winter's Tale">The Winter's Tale</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Shakespearean_tragedy" title="Shakespearean tragedy">Tragedies</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Antony_and_Cleopatra" title="Antony and Cleopatra">Antony and Cleopatra</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Coriolanus" title="Coriolanus">Coriolanus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hamlet" title="Hamlet">Hamlet</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Julius_Caesar_(play)" title="Julius Caesar 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John</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Edward_III_(play)" title="Edward III (play)">Edward III</a></i> ✻</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Tragedy_of_King_Richard_the_Third" title="The Tragedy of King Richard the Third">The Tragedy of King Richard the Third</a></i></li> <li><i>Henry IV</i> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Henry_IV,_Part_1" title="Henry IV, Part 1">1</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Henry_IV,_Part_2" title="Henry IV, Part 2">2</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Henry_V_(play)" title="Henry V (play)">Henry V</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Henry_VI_(play)" title="Henry VI (play)">Henry VI</a></i> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Henry_VI,_Part_1" title="Henry VI, Part 1">1</a></i> ✻</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Henry_VI,_Part_2" title="Henry VI, Part 2">2</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Henry_VI,_Part_3" title="Henry VI, Part 3">3</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Richard_III_(play)" class="mw-redirect" title="Richard III (play)">Richard III</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Henry_VIII_(play)" title="Henry VIII (play)">Henry VIII</a></i> ✻</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Early_texts_of_Shakespeare%27s_works" title="Early texts of Shakespeare's works">Early editions</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Shakespeare_plays_in_quarto" title="List of Shakespeare plays in quarto">Quarto publications</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_Folio" title="First Folio">First Folio</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Folio" title="Second Folio">Second Folio</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Shakespearean_problem_play" title="Shakespearean problem play">Problem plays</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shakespeare%27s_late_romances" title="Shakespeare's late romances">Late romances</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henriad" title="Henriad">Henriad</a></li> <li>Characters <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Shakespearean_characters_(A%E2%80%93K)" title="List of Shakespearean characters (A–K)">A–K</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Shakespearean_characters_(L%E2%80%93Z)" title="List of Shakespearean characters (L–Z)">L–Z</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ghost_character" title="Ghost character">Ghost character</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chronology_of_Shakespeare%27s_plays" title="Chronology of Shakespeare's plays">Chronology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shakespeare_in_performance" title="Shakespeare in performance">Performances</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Shakespearean_settings" title="List of Shakespearean settings">Settings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Shakespearean_scenes" title="List of Shakespearean scenes">Scenes</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="6" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Chandos_portrait" title="Chandos portrait"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Shakespeare_%28oval-cropped%29.png/75px-Shakespeare_%28oval-cropped%29.png" decoding="async" width="75" height="107" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Shakespeare_%28oval-cropped%29.png/113px-Shakespeare_%28oval-cropped%29.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Shakespeare_%28oval-cropped%29.png/150px-Shakespeare_%28oval-cropped%29.png 2x" data-file-width="420" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Poems</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a 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0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Plays</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Arden_of_Faversham" title="Arden of Faversham">Arden of Faversham</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Birth_of_Merlin" title="The Birth of Merlin">The Birth of Merlin</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_History_of_Cardenio" title="The History of Cardenio">Cardenio</a></i> ✻†</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Double_Falsehood" title="Double Falsehood">Double Falsehood</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Edmund_Ironside_(play)" title="Edmund Ironside (play)">Edmund Ironside</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Fair_Em" title="Fair Em">Fair Em</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Locrine" title="Locrine">Locrine</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_London_Prodigal" title="The London Prodigal">The London Prodigal</a></i></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Love%27s_Labour%27s_Won" title="Love's Labour's Won">Love's Labour's Won</a></i> †</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Merry_Devil_of_Edmonton" title="The Merry Devil of Edmonton">The Merry Devil of Edmonton</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mucedorus" title="Mucedorus">Mucedorus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Puritan" title="The Puritan">The Puritan</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Second_Maiden%27s_Tragedy" title="The Second Maiden's Tragedy">The Second Maiden's Tragedy</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sejanus_His_Fall" title="Sejanus His Fall">Sejanus His Fall</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sir_John_Oldcastle" title="Sir John Oldcastle">Sir John Oldcastle</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sir_Thomas_More_(play)" title="Sir Thomas More (play)">Sir Thomas More</a></i> ✻</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Spanish_Tragedy" title="The Spanish Tragedy">The Spanish Tragedy</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Lord_Cromwell" title="Thomas Lord Cromwell">Thomas Lord Cromwell</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Thomas_of_Woodstock_(play)" title="Thomas of Woodstock (play)">Thomas of Woodstock</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ur-Hamlet" title="Ur-Hamlet">Ur-Hamlet</a></i> †</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Vortigern_and_Rowena" title="Vortigern and Rowena">Vortigern and Rowena</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Yorkshire_Tragedy" title="A Yorkshire Tragedy">A Yorkshire Tragedy</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Poems</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Passionate_Pilgrim" title="The Passionate Pilgrim">The Passionate Pilgrim</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/To_the_Queen" title="To the Queen">To the Queen</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Life_of_William_Shakespeare" title="Life of William Shakespeare">Life</a><br />and <a href="/wiki/List_of_works_by_William_Shakespeare" title="List of works by William Shakespeare">works</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Shakespeare%27s_Birthplace" title="Shakespeare's Birthplace">Birthplace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_works_by_William_Shakespeare" title="List of works by William Shakespeare">Bibliography</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Complete_Works_of_Shakespeare" title="Complete Works of Shakespeare">Complete Works</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_translations_of_works_by_William_Shakespeare" title="List of translations of works by William Shakespeare">Translations</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shakespeare_coat_of_arms" title="Shakespeare coat of arms">Coat of arms</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare%27s_collaborations" title="William Shakespeare's collaborations">Collaborations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shakespeare%27s_editors" title="Shakespeare's editors">Editors</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/English_Renaissance_theatre" title="English Renaissance theatre">English Renaissance theatre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Globe_Theatre" title="Globe Theatre">Globe Theatre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shakespeare%27s_handwriting" title="Shakespeare's handwriting">Handwriting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lord_Chamberlain%27s_Men" title="Lord Chamberlain's Men">Lord Chamberlain's Men</a>/<a href="/wiki/King%27s_Men_(playing_company)" title="King's Men (playing company)">King's Men</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Theatre" title="The Theatre">The Theatre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Curtain_Theatre" title="Curtain Theatre">Curtain Theatre</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Music_in_the_plays_of_William_Shakespeare" title="Music in the plays of William 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</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Reputation_of_William_Shakespeare" title="Reputation of William Shakespeare">Legacy</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Shakespeare_attribution_studies" title="Shakespeare attribution studies">Attribution studies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shakespeare_authorship_question" title="Shakespeare authorship question">Authorship question</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bardolatry" title="Bardolatry">Bardolatry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shakespeare_festival" title="Shakespeare festival">Festivals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shakespeare_garden" title="Shakespeare garden">Gardens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Influence_of_William_Shakespeare" title="Influence of William Shakespeare">Influence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Memorials_to_William_Shakespeare" title="Memorials to William Shakespeare">Memorials</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_William_Shakespeare_screen_adaptations" title="List of William Shakespeare screen adaptations">Screen adaptations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shakespeare_and_Star_Trek" title="Shakespeare and Star Trek">Shakespeare and <i>Star Trek</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shakespeare%27s_influence_on_Tolkien" title="Shakespeare's influence on Tolkien">Shakespeare's influence on Tolkien</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_works_titled_after_Shakespeare" title="List of works titled after Shakespeare">Works titled after Shakespeare</a></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Institutions12" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Institutions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Folger_Shakespeare_Library" title="Folger Shakespeare Library">Folger Shakespeare 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