Shakespeare’s shortest and most farcical play sets two sets of identical twins loose in the city of Ephesus, with predictably chaotic results. Adapted from Plautus’s Menaechmi, the play piles misunderstanding upon misunderstanding — mistaken identities, wrong deliveries, accusations of madness — until it resolves in a scene of joyful recognition.
An early work, written around 1592–1594, The Comedy of Errors is Shakespeare at his most unabashedly farcical. Fast-moving and enormously entertaining on stage. This free EPUB is ready for any device.