Comedy of Errors: a short reaction
The Comedy of Errors is a play written by
Shakepeare. The play is about two sets of identical twins separated
as infants, and the absurdity surrounding their accidental reunion. Since this
play appears early along Shakespeare’s writing timeline, critics tend to
dismiss it as his more juvenile work. It seems "textbook" in a way
we’re not really used to with Shakespeare – it draws from two earlier classical
plays, and has a unity of time, place, and action that only appears once more
in Shakespeare’s entire portfolio. The play is definitely full of foolishness
and frippery, and that lack of deep content, combined with its
"by-the-book" writing, often leads critics to conclude there’s
nothing more to this play than Shakespeare working out a couple of his writing
kinks as an amateur playwright.
At
the first part of the story, I’m wondering how would it be a comedy because of
the beginning which is the shipwreck. When I read the whole play I realized
that it is really a comedy because of confusing that happens to the characters.
When I first heard that this play was written by the famous playwright William
Shakespeare, I can’t believe because as I know, most of his plays are all about
tragedy or romance. I really like the plot of the story and how that story
ended.
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