The Comedy of Errors (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

Shakespeare, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192814613 ISBN 13: 9780192814616

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2003

Synopsis

A Comedy of Errors is Shakespeare's 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 play's first performance at Gray's Inn in December 1594, its multiple sources and its uneven critical and theatrical history. Appendices include the complete text of the play's 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 Shakespeare's 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 this title

About the Author:

Charles Whitworth is a Professor of English Literature and Director, Centre for English Renaissance Studies, Universite Paul Valery.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0192814613
• ISBN 13: 9780192814616
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Whitworth Charles