The Comedy of Errors (Newly Revised Edidtion)

The shortest and probably earliest of Shakespeare's comedies, The Comedy of Errors is the story of identical twin brothers who are raised apart-and then mistaken for each other.

Shakespeare: An Overview vii
　Biographical Sketch vii / A Note on the Anti-Stratfordi.ans,
　Especially Baconians and Oxfordians xi / The Shakespeare
　Canon xv / Shakespeare's English xviii / Shakespeare's
　Theater xxvi / A Note on the Use of Boy Actors in Female
  Roles xxxiii / Shakespeare's Dramatic Language: Cos-
　tumes, Gestures and Silences; Prose and Poetry xxxvi / The
　Play Text as a Collaboration xliii / Editing Texts xlix /
　Shakespeare on the Stage liv
Introduction lxiii
The Comedy of Errors 1
Textual Note
The Source of The Comedy of Errors
　PLAUTUS  Menaechmi 80
Commentaries
　AUGUST WILHELM SCHLEGEL  From Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature
　SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE  From ShakespeareanCriticism
  W~LLIAM HAZLITT  From Characters of Shakespear'sPlays
  ETIENNE SOUPdAU  From The Two Hundred ThousandDramatic Situations
  BERTRANO EVANS  From Shakespeare's Comedies
  C. L. BARBER  From Shakespearian Comedy in TheComedy of Errors
  LouisE GEORGE CLUBB  Italian Comedy and TheComedy of Errors
  CO~L~A KAHN  Identity in The Comedy of Errors
  HARRY LEVIN  The Comedy of Errors on Stage andScreen
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