The comedy of errors, paperback/william shakespeare

A Comedy of Errors is Shakespeares shortest play yet one of his most popular comedies.

Here is a new modern-spelling edition, based on the 1623 Folio text with on-page commentary and notes that explain meaning, staging, language and allusions.

A detailed and informative introduction describes the plays first performance at Grays Inn in December 1594, its multiple sources and its uneven critical and theatrical history.

Appendices include the complete text of the plays main source, Plautus Menaechmi, and extracts from Gesta Grayorum and the Geneva Bible.

Illustrated with production photographs and related art, this edition vividly brings to life Shakespeares Comedy of Errors.

Not simply a better text but a new conception of Shakespeare.

This is a major achievement of twentieth-century scholarship.

--Times Literary Supplement About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe.

Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.