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The Comedy of Errors

By William Shakespeare
Series: The Pelican Shakespeare
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The Comedy of Errors is a classic Shakespearean comedy involving mistaken identities and farcical situations centred around two sets of identical twins separated at birth. The play masterfully combines elements of slapstick humour and witty wordplay, exploring themes of family, confusion, and reconciliation.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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This edition from the authoritative Pelican Shakespeare series is ideal for students, teachers, and theatre professionals seeking a definitive text with scholarly essays and historical context. It will also appeal to general readers interested in classic literature and Shakespeare's enduring works.

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The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel.

The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare's time, an introduction to the individual play, and a detailed note on the text used.

Updated by general editors Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller, these easy-to-read editions incorporate over thirty years of Shakespeare scholarship undertaken since the original series, edited by Alfred Harbage, appeared between 1956 and 1967. With definitive texts and illuminating essays, the Pelican Shakespeare will remain a valued resource for students, teachers, and theatre professionals for many years to come.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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“Remarkable . . . makes Shakespeare’s extraordinary accomplishment more vivid than ever.” — James Shapiro, professor, Columbia University
“A feast of literary and historical information.” — The Wall Street Journal

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780140714746

Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 11 February 2000

Country: Australia

Imprint: Penguin Random House Australia

Contributors:

  • Series edited by Stephen Orgel
  • Series edited by A. R. Braunmuller
  • Edited by Frances E. Dolan
  • Introduction by Frances E. Dolan

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 8.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 195.0mm

Weight: 108g

Pages: 128

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Arts & Culture Classic Poetry Non-Fiction Penguin Books Series: The Pelican Shakespeare William Shakespeare

About the Author

William Shakespearewas born in Stratford-upon-Avon in April, 1564, and his birth is traditionally celebrated on April 23. The facts of his life, known from surviving documents, are sparse. He died on April 23, 1616, and was buried in Holy Trinity Church, Stratford. A. R.Braunmulleris Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Los Angeles. He has written critical volumes on George Peele and George Chapman and has edited plays in both the Oxford (King John) and Cambridge (Macbeth) series of Shakespeare editions. He is also general editor of The New Cambridge Shakespeare. Stephen Orgelis the Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of the Humanities at Stanford University and general editor of the Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture. His books includeImagining Shakespeare,The Authentic Shakespeare,Impersonations- The Performance of Gender in Shakespeare's EnglandandThe Illusion of Power.

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