The Comedy of Errors, 9780192869036
Paperback
Twins, mistakes, and madness collide in Shakespeare’s farcical early comedy.

The Comedy of Errors

the new oxford shakespeare

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  • Paperback

    144 pages

  • Release Date

    11 May 2025

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Summary

Lost in Translation: A Comical Journey Through Shakespeare’s Errors

The New Oxford Shakespeare edition of The Comedy of Errors provides a friendly yet authoritative introduction to Shakespeare’s beloved comedy. ‘How many fond fools serve mad jealousy!’ The Comedy of Errors is one of Shakespeare’s most farcical plays, with not one but two sets of twins sliding past each other into mistakes, violence, and madness. An early romantic comedy, it’s often considered an immature play but al…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780192869036
ISBN-10:0192869035
Series:Oxford World's Classics
Author:William Shakespeare, Ian Burrows, Sarah Neville, Emma Smith
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Imprint:Oxford University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:144
Release Date:11 May 2025
Weight:114g
Dimensions:197mm x 130mm x 10mm
About The Author

William Shakespeare

Ian Burrows, Fellow of Clare College, University of Cambridge. Ian Burrows is a Fellow of Clare College, teaching and researching drama (and early modern drama in particular). He is especially interested in the exploration and exploitation of physicality in theatrical spaces, which he considers in his book Shakespeare for Snowflakes: On Slapstick and Sympathy, and which he continues to consider in the forthcoming Punctuation and Personality in Early Modern Printed Plays: Printing Hiccups. He is the co-convenor of the ‘Beyond the Trigger’ research programme, which uses techniques of embodied rehearsal and performance to reflect on the teaching of traumatic and traumatising literary material.

Sarah Neville, Ohio State University. Sarah Neville is an Associate Professor of English at the Ohio State University with a courtesy appointment in Theatre, Film, and Media Arts. She specializes in early modern English literature, bibliography, theories of textuality, and performance, chiefly examining the ways that authority is negotiated in print, digital, and live media. She is an assistant editor of The New Oxford Shakespeare (2016-17), for which she edited five plays in both old and modern-spelling editions.

Emma Smith, Professor of Shakespeare Studies, University of Oxford.

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