The Comedy of Errors (Bloom's Shakespeare Through the Ages)

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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

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