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    The Comedy of Errors, is a play written by William Shakespeare, which follows the lives of two sets of twin brothers, Antipholus of Syracuse and Antipholus of Ephesus and their slaves Dromio of Syracuse and Dromio of Ephesus: who were separated after birth and how they were all brought back together out of error. That error not only affects the lives of the men, but also their significant others specifically Antipholus of Ephesus’ wife Adriana. The error that all parties face signifies an overarching

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    I attended the HCC Stafford Drama Department performance of “The Comedy of Errors” on Sunday, November 22nd, 2015. I did not know much about this particular Shakespearean play but was looking forward to a good comedy. When I walked into the theater I was surprised and intrigued to see that the play was set in a Moroccan bazaar, it heightened my curiosity as to what this play had in store for the evening. The actors all did wonderful in their respective roles, from the main characters to the stage

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    William Shakespeare. And in your play Tartuffe, the comedy of error is centered around the initial misperception of Tartuffe’s character by Orgon and Madame Parnelle. The way I see it, they should have easily been able to see the truth behind Tartuffe’s masquerade. Throughout the whole plot, Tartuffe is constantly weaseling his way into Orgon’s favor and then ends up betraying Orgon through the use of blackmail towards the end of the play. Despite receiving several warnings from all of the other

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    William Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors (1594) reflects Shakespeare’s skill at combining comedy into tragic setting to put forward social issues and reflections. In the passage in Act II, scene I, lines 86 – 101, the monologue of Adriana and her interactions with her sister are examples of Shakespeare’s continuation of theme and motif, incorporated into character building. He does this through his use of language and formal techniques. This passage, and in the wider scope of the play, displays

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    breast had not been made of faith and my heart of steel, She had transform'd me to a curtal dog and made me turn i' the wheel.’’ (The Comedy of Errors) Despite all the similarities seen above, Shakespeare endows his work with many aspects of his time and adds new characters and situations to complicate even more the plot and almost triples the incidents of error. Shakespeare altered plot elements and location and modified the comic tone and mood when adapting

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    “The Comedy of Errors.” I’ve done this by looking at events during the late 1500’s that involved the English government and by examining Shakespeare’s biography. This research draws upon mostly secondary sources, including articles & bibliographies, but also includes some primary sources such as plays & other literature. Most prior research on Shakespeare is mostly about his writing style and how he uses unrhymed verses in his plays. Studies show that during the 1500’s, most power

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    Roland Barthes once said “literature is the question minus the answer.” In Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors, a central question is asked concerning what about a women and her relationships is revealed when they are faced with oppression and attempt to resist and question it? What about a woman is revealed when they accept and enforce patriarchy? These question are replied to in multiple ways to different extents and reveals the play’s meaning of the work as a whole: when women question norms,

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    Syracuse. I thought The Comedy of Errors was kind of confusing at first but once it wasn’t as confusing it, I realized they were both named Antipholus and thought it was funny. The Comedy of Errors was written by William Shakespeare for fans of comedy but in modern times people who like Shakespeare’s other stories. The Comedy of Errors took place in the past in the Greek Cities of Ephesus. The Comedy of Errors is in the third person point of view. The conflict in The Comedy of Errors is Aegon’s family

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    Northern Arizona University's Production of Comedy of Errors was, by far the funniest thing I have ever seen, as far as plays go. Now, I haven't seen very many plays in person, but it was still hilarious. It was definitely different from the last play I saw, which was Good People by David Lindsay-Abaire. I enjoyed both plays, but for different reasons. I won't go into detail about Good People, because that was my last paper. This paper is about Comedy of Errors. If you haven't seen this particular play

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    from complex, diverse women, to the various plots of each writing piece that has set an example for writers centuries later— readers are still able to infer the intricate themes and attitudes that entwine themselves in his scripts. Like in “The Comedy of Errors,” it presents the contemporary question, “how effectively can family control our actions?” Shakespeare answers this inquiry to an implied, open-ended extent, by revealing that the meaning of the work is, “family may influence our actions, but

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