Comedy of errors: a Short reaction
The Comedy of Errors is – you
guessed it – a comedy by William Shakespeare written in
1594. The play is about two sets of identical twins separated as infants, and
the absurdity surrounding their accidental reunion. Since this play appears
early along Shakespeare’s writing timeline, critics tend to dismiss it as his
more juvenile work. It seems "textbook" in a way we’re not really
used to with Shakespeare – it draws from two earlier classical plays, and has a
unity of time, place, and action that only appears once more in Shakespeare’s
entire portfolio. The play is definitely full of foolishness and frippery, and
that lack of deep content, combined with its "by-the-book" writing,
often leads critics to conclude there’s nothing more to this play than
Shakespeare working out a couple of his writing kinks as an amateur playwright.
After hearing the summary of the play I realized that the
title given to this play was very appropriate. The story was unexpected
specially because Shakespeare is tragic writer for me and I was not expecting a
comedy one from him. In general the story was really good and I really liked
it. It was quite confusing but it was really really great !
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