Comedy Of Errors

. Ed(s): Bloom, Prof. Harold

ISBN 10: 1604137207 / ISBN 13: 9781604137200

Published by Chelsea House Publishers, 2010

About this Item

Focuses on how our relationship with the works of Shakespeare has evolved through the ages. This title features: a selection of criticism on the work through the centuries; introductory essays on the development of criticism on the work in each century; and, a brief biography of Shakespeare. Editor(s): Bloom, Prof. Harold. Series: Bloom's Shakespeare Through the Ages. Num Pages: 242 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS; YQE; YQZ. Category: (ES) Secondary; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 241 x 162 x 18. Weight in Grams: 485. . 2010. Hardback. . . . .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Comedy Of Errors
• Publisher: Chelsea House Publishers
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1604137207
• ISBN 13: 9781604137200
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

In the Shakespearean play that most closely resembles farce, two sets of identical twins, each separated for years, arrive in Ephesus and leave a trail of confusion and mistaken identity in their wake. While evoking one of Shakespeare's recurring themes---the restorative power of love--- this early work contains some of the playwright's developing insights on the human condition and presents a portrait of women's diverse roles in Elizabethan society. This invaluable new study guide contains a selection of the finest criticism through the centuries, in addition to an introduction by Harold Bloom, an accessible summary of the plot, an analysis of key passages, a comprehensive list of characters, a biography of Shakespeare, and more.

"Exuberant fun as it is and must be, this fierce little play is also one of the starting points for Shakespeare's invention of the human. A role in farce hardly seems an arena for inwardness, but genre never confined Shakespeare, even at his origins, and Antipholus of Syracuse is a sketch for the abysses of self that are to come."--- Harold Bloom

About the Author

Harold Bloom is Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University and the author of more than 30 books, including Shelley's Mythmaking (1959), Blake's Apocalypse (1963), Yeats (1970), The Anxiety of Influence (1973), A Map of Misreading (1975), Kabbalah and Criticism (1975), Agon: Toward a Theory of Revisionism (1982), The American Religion (1992), The Western Canon (1994), Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (1998), How to Read and Why (2000), Hamlet: Poem Unlimited (2003), Where Shall Wisdom Be Found? (2004), and Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine (2005). In 1999, Professor Bloom received the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Gold Medal for Criticism.