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9780198129332

The Comedy of Errors The Oxford Shakespeare The Comedy of Errors

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  • ISBN13:

    9780198129332

  • ISBN10:

    0198129335

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2003-03-27
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Summary

This new modern-spelling edition of Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors includes a full introduction by Charles Whitworth that discusses the probable occasion of its first performance in 1594, its multiple sources, and its uneven critical and theatrical history. A full text of Plautus's comedy Menæchmus , and extracts from Gesta Gragorum and the Geneva Bible are included in appendices.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
viii
Introduction
1(80)
1594/1604---a play for Christmas?
1(9)
1623: the text
10(7)
Sources and analogues
17(25)
Plautus, Menaechmi
17(4)
William Warner
21(4)
Plautus, Amphitruo
25(2)
Apollonius of Tyre: Gower or Twine?
27(10)
Acts and Ephesians
37(5)
Farce, City Comedy and Romance
42(17)
Four centuries of `Errors' on the page and on the stage
59(22)
Editorial Procedures
81(6)
Abbreviations and references
82(5)
THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
87(94)
Appendix A Proverbial language in `The Comedy of Errors' 181(2)
Appendix B Extracts from `Gesta Grayorum' (1688) 183(5)
Appendix C Plautus, `Menaechmi' (William Warner's 1595 translation) 188(33)
Appendix D Extracts from Acts and Ephesians (The Geneva Bible (1560) 221(4)
Index 225

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