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Title: THE OXFORD SHAKESPEARE: THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
By: William Shakespeare, Sir Charles Whitworth (Editor)
Format: Hardback

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ISBN 10: 0198129335
ISBN 13: 9780198129332
Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 19 December, 2002
Series: The Oxford Shakespeare
Pages: 240
Description: A new modern-spelling edition of Shakespeare's shortest play and one of his most popular comedies. Charles Whitworth's full introduction discusses the probable occasion of its first performance at Gray's Inn in December 1594, its multiple sources and its uneven critical and theatrical history. A full text of Plautus's comedy Menaechmi, and extracts from Gesta Grayorum and the Geneva Bible are included in appendices.
Synopsis: Often under-rated as a mechanical farce, The Comedy of Errors, hilarious in its exploitation of mistaken identity, masterly in construction, and brilliant in linguistic invention, is the first of Shakespeare's romantic comedies, deeply moving in the reunions and reconciliations of its conclusion. This, the first major edition since 1988, bases itself directly on the 1623 Folio text and provides helpful explanatory notes. The Introduction, appreciative of the play's theatrical success over the centuries, argues that it was specifically written for and performed at the Gray's Inn Christmas revels on 28 December 1594, among the first composed by Shakespeare for his new company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men. Discussion of the play's origins argues that the immediate source for the frame plot (Egeon and his family) was not Gower's Confessio Amantis, is usually assumed, but a recent Elizabethan short novel, Lawrence Twine's Pattern of Painful Adventures. The main plot is unquestionably based on the Roman dramatist Plautus's Menaechmi, here reprinted in its entirety in a modernized version of William Warner's translation (1595).
Illustrations: 6 halftones
Publication: UK
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Returns: Non-returnable
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