{"product_id":"the-oxford-shakespeare-the-comedy-of-errors-by-william-shakespeare-9780198129332","title":"The Oxford Shakespeare: The Comedy of Errors","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOften under-rated as a mechanical farce, \u003cem\u003eThe Comedy of Errors\u003c\/em\u003e, hilarious in its exploitation of mistaken identity, masterly in construction, and brilliant in linguistic invention, is the first of Shakespeare's romantic comedies, deeply moving in the reunions and reconciliations of its conclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis, the first major edition since 1988, bases itself directly on the 1623 Folio text and provides helpful explanatory notes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Introduction, appreciative of the play's theatrical success over the centuries, argues that it was specifically written for and performed at the Gray's Inn Christmas revels on 28 December 1594, among the first composed by Shakespeare for his new company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDiscussion of the play's origins argues that the immediate source for the frame plot (Egeon and his family) was not Gower's \u003cem\u003eConfessio Amantis\u003c\/em\u003e, as usually assumed, but a recent Elizabethan short novel, Lawrence Twine's \u003cem\u003ePattern of Painful Adventures\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe main plot is unquestionably based on the Roman dramatist Plautus's \u003cem\u003eMenaechmi\u003c\/em\u003e, here reprinted in its entirety in a modernized version of William Warner's translation (1595).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47648073089260,"sku":"9780198129332","price":488.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780198129332-the-oxford-shakespeare-the-comedy-of-errors.jpg?v=1779249434","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-oxford-shakespeare-the-comedy-of-errors-by-william-shakespeare-9780198129332","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}