
The Comedy of Errors
The New Oxford Shakespeare
$16.51
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
11 May 2025
Summary
‘How many fond fools serve mad jealousy!’
The Comedy of Errors is Shakespeare’s most farcical play, with not one but two sets of twins sliding past each other into mistakes, violence, and madness. An early romantic comedy, it is often considered an immature play but also a piece of dramatic experimentation. This edition examines links between Shakespeare’s play and its literary sources and analogues, but also situates it within performance traditions. Illuminating points of c…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780192869036 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0192869035 |
| 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 |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
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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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