The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare

The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare

The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. For this second edition of The Comedy of Errors, Ros King has revised T. S. Dorsch's renowned text and commentary and written a completely new introduction to the work. She argues that the play cannot be regarded merely as a farcical romp based on a classical model but that it belongs to the critically misunderstood genre of tragi-comedy. Emphasising the seriousness that underlies the text, she pays special attention to the play's religious imagery and at the same time engages fully with its lightness of touch and its continuing popularity in the theatre. The volume also features accounts of recent and historical performances, and an updated reading list.

"King's lively introduction and helpful new bibliography constitute a very welcome updating of the Dorsch edition and shed some new light on one of Shakespeare's early comic masterpieces" - The Sixteenth Century Journal Thomas G. Olsen, State University of New York at New Paltz

At the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, Peter Holland is the McMeel Family Professor of Shakespeare Studies. He was President of the Shakespeare Association of America (2007-8) and Director of the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon (1997-2002).

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ISBN 13	9780521535168
ISBN 10	0521535166
Title	The Comedy of Errors
Author	William Shakespeare
Series	The New Cambridge Shakespeare
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2004-02-26
Number of pages	144
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.