Ready Reference Treatise: The Comedy of Errors

By Raja Sharma

The play derives the major part of its humour from mistaken identity and slapstick. Word play and pun happen to be equally powerful in this play.

It is generally believed that “The Comedy of Errors” and “The Tempest” are only two plays, written by William Shakespeare, which maintain the classical unities.

“The Comedy of Errors” has been translated into various languages and it has also been enacted by different drama groups in different parts of the world. Various films in different languages have been produced on the story of the play.

There are two pairs of identical twins in the play. They are, unfortunately and comically, separated right after their birth.

Ready Reference Treatise: The Comedy of Errors

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Chapter One: Preface
Chapter Two: About William Shakespeare
Chapter Three: Shakespeare's Plays
Chapter Four: Shakespeare The Poet
Chapter Five: Shakespeare's Style
Chapter Six: Introduction to "The Comedy of Errors"
Chapter Seven: Summary in Brief
Chapter Eight: Characters
Chapter Nine: Summary of the Play
Chapter Ten: Critical Analysis

• Language: English
• Publisher: Raja Sharma
• Release date: Feb 6, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301941001

Raja Sharma

Raja Sharma is a retired college lecturer.He has taught English Literature to University students for more than two decades.His students are scattered all over the world, and it is noticeable that he is in contact with more than ninety thousand of his students.

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Ready Reference Treatise: The Comedy of Errors

Raja Sharma

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Ready Reference Treatise: The Comedy of Errors

Raja Sharma

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Chapter 1: Preface

Pace is the requirement of the time and this very pace compels the students to simply concentrate on the fact that they must pass their exams with flying colours. The tests and exams even for the students of literature have become speed tests rather than the process of evaluation of the mental ingenuity of the students. Young students from colleges, nowadays, simply want to pass their exams, for education has become job oriented. We used to go to college to gain knowledge but youngsters now go to colleges to get degrees. In the process something is lost. It is quite usual to see that the academic institutions all over the world are gradually forgetting the past geniuses on whose foundations the pillars of English Literature had been raised. Modern education and the educationalists seem to be finding an escape, running away from hard work, into modern literature which is but a drop in the ocean if compared to the works of the past masters.

Who could have thought that the vast and enchanting English literature and the English speaking world would be indebted to a person who had no academic higher education? Yes, William Shakespeare is the person who gave a new direction to the literary world and the academic pursuits all over the world.

Chapter 2: About William Shakespeare

The beauty of the English Language is so mesmerizing that without the knowledge of this beautiful language one finds oneself incapable of doing various things which one could have easily done if one had the knowledge of this language.

Vast and enchanting English Literature is immensely indebted to a person who did not have any higher academic qualification. Most of the colleges and universities all over the world have his poems and playas in their course of study. It is quite surprising that his diction was so much his own that if a man from this era tries to read his works using the modern meanings, he will definitely be quite confounded. Such was the power