The Comedy of Errors

by Miola,Robert S.

• ISBN13: 9780815319979
• ISBN10: 0815319975
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-07-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This collection of essays and reviews represents the most significant and comprehensive writing on Shakespeare'sA Comedy of Errors. Miola's edited work also features a comprehensive critical history, coupled with a full bibliography and photographs of major productions of the play from around the world. In the collection, there are five previously unpublished essays. The topics covered in these new essays are women in the play, the play's debt to contemporary theater, its critical and performance histories in Germany and Japan, the metrical variety of the play, and the distinctly modern perspective on the play as containing dark and disturbing elements. To compliment these new essays, the collection features significant scholarship and commentary onThe Comedy of Errorsthat is published in obscure and difficulty accessible journals, newspapers, and other sources. This collection brings together these essays for the first time.

Table of Contents

Illustrations	xi
General Editor's Introduction	xiii
Acknowledgments	xvii
I The Critical History of The Comedy of Errors
The Play and the Critics	3	(52)
Robert S. Miola
II The Comedy of Errors: Different Voices
A Poetical Farce (1836)	55	(2)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Weirdness in the Comedy of Errors (1939)	57	(14)
G.R. Elliott
Themes and Structure in The Comedy of Errors (1961)	71	(22)
Harold F. Brooks
Brave New World (1965)	93	(20)
T.W. Baldwin
Two Comedies of Errors (1966)	113	(22)
Harry Levin
Shakespeare's Comedy of Love: The Comedy of Errors (1974)	135	(20)
Alexander Leggatt
Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors and The Nature of Kinds (1988)	155	(28)
Arthur F. Kinney
Commedia Grave and The Comedy of Errors (1989)	183	(16)
Louise George Clubb
Dining Out in Ephesus: Food in The Comedy of Errors (1990)	199	(28)
Joseph Candido
Rectifying Shakespeare's Errors: Romance and Farce in Bardeditry (1991)	227	(34)
Charles Whitworth
Reading Errantly: Misrecognition and the Uncanny in The Comedy of Errors (1991)	261	(38)
Barbara Freedman
``Stigmatical in Making'': The Material Character of The Comedy of Errors (1993)	299	(36)
Douglas Lanier
The Comedy of Errors in the Context of the Late 1580s and Early 1590s (1997)	335	(20)
David Bevington
The Girls from Ephesus (1997)	355	(38)
Laurie Maguire
The Errors of the Verse: Metrical Reading and Performance of The Comedy of Errors (1997)	393	(32)
Brennan O'Donnell
III. The Comedy of Errors in Performance
The Gesta Grayorum Account [At Gray's Inn, 1594]	425	(6)
Shakespeare and the Prince of Purpoole: The 1594 Production of The Comedy of Errors at Gray's Inn Hall	431	(16)
Margaret Knapp
Michal Kobialka
The Elizabethan Stage Society Production at Gray's Inn, 1895	447	(2)
George Bernard Shaw
Die Irrungen: The Comedy of Errors in Germany	449	(24)
Gunter Walch
Stimulating Komisarjevsky Production: Stratford's Best, 1938 M.F.K.F.	473	(4)
The Comedy of Errors: Russian Producer's Merry Pranks, 1938 C.	477	(4)
The Act of Uniformity: Williams Production, 1962	481	(4)
Edmund Gardner
Shakespeare in Britain: Williams Production, 1962	485	(2)
Robert Speaight
Comedy of Errors at Stratford: Williams Production, 1962/1972	487	(2)
Michael Billington
The Comedy of Errors in Japan	489	(8)
Peter Milward
Trevor Nunn's Musical Production, 1976	497	(2)
Sally Emerson
Theory and Practice: Stratford, 1976	499	(2)
Roger Warren
The Comedy of Errors: Reflections of an Actor	501	(10)
Roger Ress
Robert Woodruff's Circus Production, 1983	511	(4)
Joel G. Fink
Adrian Noble's Stratford Production, 1983	515	(6)
Charles Whitworth
Leif Soderstrom's Stockholm Production, 1983	521	(4)
Lars Ring
Gunnar Sorelius
The Comedy of Errors on Television	525	(22)
H. R. Coursen
Crinkles in the Carnival: Ideology in South African Productions of The Comedy of Errors to 1985	547	(16)
Rohan Quince
Ian Judge's Stratford Production, 1990	563	(6)
Peter Holland
Errors: Shakespeare, Rattled & Droll: Shenandoah Shakespeare Express Production, 1992	569
Pamela Sommers