How Is The Language Used In The Comedy Of Error

In his play, The Comedy of Errors, William Shakespeare uses comedy to both entertain the audience while adding a whole new dimension of sarcasm to his play.  The Comedy of Errors follows the story of long lost twin, Antipholus of Syracuse, in his search for his twin, Antipholus of Ephesus. When he stops in Ephesus, Antipholus of Syracuse and his servant, Dromio of Syracuse, receive special treatment as they are confused for their counterparts. This dynamic allows for a hysterical play. At one point, Dromio of Syracuse assumes the role of Dromio of Ephesus while guarding the gate as the family is eating. Dromio of Syracuse states “Mome, malt-horse, capon, coxcomb, idiot, patch! / Either get thee from the door or sit down at the / hatch”

In the tragedy written by Shakespeare the main characters make many poor decisions due to the fact that they are in an intricate situation. The first problem

    All is not as it seems in The Comedy of Errors.  Some have the notion that The Comedy of Errors is a classical and relatively un-Shakespearean play. The plot is, in fact, based largely on Plautus's Menaechmi, a light-hearted comedy in which twins are mistaken for each other. Shakespeare's addition of twin servants is borrowed from Amphitruo, another play by Plautus. Like its classical predecessors, The Comedy of Errors mixes farce and satire and (to a degree) presents us with stock characters.

Concentrating on Mercutio’s third sentence here beginning, “He fights as you sing prick- / song…” this paper will explore how various linguistic devices, including metaphor, a number of rhetorical figures, and parody come together in this effusive and highfalutin description of Tybalt’s fighting style to convey important information about Mercutio’s character, Tybalt’s fighting style, and fashions in fencing, ultimately attesting to Shakespeare’s impressive ability to manipulate language in order to create layered meaning.

The many characters in Romeo and Juliet are affected by the events in very different ways, and most of them respond in totally outrageous ways. The novel seems to be a joke on people’s actions, and how people cope with their situations. Shakespeare is very successful in achieving his goal and spreading his many messages. His messages, and themes make the book a worthwhile read despite the outrageous

In the tragedy play Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare, the theme of fate versus human error would definitely be one of the main and most important theme throughout the play. In addition, Shakespeare describes the human error events are often called upon and mistaken for fate. However, there are always an underlying action, or a combination with fate which can lead on part of the human beings that decide the consequences for their actions. Most importantly, people tend to blame their mistakes or poor decisions on fate and density. The choices of Romeo and Juliet was not fate, but human error. Personally, I believe that destiny is no matter of chance. It is the matter of choice which we made that determine the outcomes.

One of Shakespeare's earliest plays (its first recorded performance in December 1594), The Comedy of Errors has frequently been dismissed as pure farce, unrepresentative of the playwright's later efforts. While Errors may very well contain farcical elements, it is a complex, layered work that draws upon and reinterprets Plautine comedy. Shakespeare combines aspects of these Latin plays with biblical source material, chiefly the Acts of the Apostles and the Pauline Epistle to the Ephesians. While Menaechmi is the most frequently cited classical source for Errors, Plautus' Amphitruo is just as relevant an influence; Shakespeare's treatment of identity and its

From the beginning of Titus Andronicus we are thrust into Shakespeare's idiosyncratic form of reality, a place where things are slightly out of place, maybe a little out of touch. When any writer creates such a reality, some room to be more dramatic or creative is formed, this allows things out of the ordinary suddenly become ordinary. This simulacrum of reality is essential to Shakespeare's work; however, in Titus Andronicus it functions in a slightly altered way, allowing a dark humor to be found in some of the play's most tragic moments—so much so, that to call the play simply a tragedy becomes unjust. Structurally, the work is tragic, one that pushes moral boundaries and leaves us uncomfortable, but on another level the work delves into

William Shakespeare lived and wrote over 400 years ago, but his wonderful plays continue to entertain and influence the audiences of the Twenty-First Century. Despite the outdated content and language of his works, Shakespeare’s plays remain popular with modern readers and play watchers for another reason. In all of his works, including William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, he uses countless literary devices and techniques to affect the mood of the audience and enhance their enjoyment. He utilizes puns and juxtaposition to create a comical or light hearted mood. He also uses dramatic irony and oxymorons for a dramatic or serious mood. Although Shakespeare’s work does not include modern language or modern situations, the literary devices that he uses work to keep an audience of any time feeling involved

The Comedy of Errors is a significant work of Shakespeare, because it was his gateway to works with more significance, depth, and characters with definite characteristics. In The Comedy of Errors, the character of Adriana is presented. Adriana is best known for being wife of E. Antipholous, but Adriana is also Luciana’s sister. Adriana is so significant in this play, because although this play was a comedy, Adriana’s role in this play is highly emotionally based. Adriana challenges the roles of the standard woman at the time and of a woman in her marriage. Adriana is outspoken and is not afraid to be very opinionated. Throughout the course of the play, she focuses

Generally, the paradox of tragedy discusses “how we can (not irrationally or absurdly) respond emotionally to a work of art all, given that we do not really believe the events or charters depicted in it are real.” While, in Pleasures of Tragedies, Feagin takes a more specific approach which aims at figuring out the possible explanation of the pleasures obtained from the tragedy.

One of literature’s most distinguished plays, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, was written by the highly acclaimed William Shakespeare. Shakespeare was an individual of many talents; among those talents were poetry, acting, and playwriting. During his life, Shakespeare wrote a total of thirty-seven plays, one-hundred-seventy-four sonnets, and invented more than seventeen thousand of the words used in current English. A great number of those plays and sonnets have been translated in over eighty languages, some of which include Chinese, Uzbek, and Bengali. William Shakespeare’s works have been so widely used in the English language that he has become the second most quoted author in English. Because of Shakespeare’s great success, The Tragedy of

In a comparison of comedy and tragedy, I will begin by looking at narrative. The narration in a comedy often involves union and togetherness as we see in the marriage scene at the end of Midsummer's Night Dream. William Hazlitt tells us that one can also expect incongruities, misunderstandings, and contradictions. I am reminded of the play The Importance of Being Ernest and the humor by way of mistaken identity. Sigmund Freud tells us to expect excess and exaggeration in comedy. Chekhov's Marriage Proposal displays this excess both in language and in movements. Charles Darwin insists that in a comedy "circumstances must not be of a momentous nature;" whereas, Northop Frye identifies

The genre of William Shakespeare’s most performed play has been debated for a long time: is it a comedy or a tragedy? The play has elements of both genres, but one is clearly prevalent. While the story hits upon the tragic element of despair, The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare, is a comedy because lovers are separated, characters are in disguise, and the story has a happy ending.

There are many characteristics that make up a comedy. Characteristics such as mistaken identity, battle of the sexes, and jumping to conclusions are what set the comedic story apart from the tragedy. Within a comedy, no matter how much fault, and dismay may appear within the story, there always seems to be the classic ending of “…and they all lived happily ever after…” Comedies capture the viewer with a sense of compassion and love for the characters in the story. Each character has their own essence, to which they pertain a flaw of some sorts, which the audience can relate to. With the relation to characters there is defiantly a certain interest that is grabbed by the actors, which sucks the audience into the