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	In all Seriousness: The Comedy of Errors
		Although The Comedy of Errors, undoubtedly one of Shakespeare’s early plays, anticipates his later comedies and romances, such as The Winter’s Tale, Twelfth Night, and The Taming of the Shrew, it is, nonetheless, a play that clearly stands on its own.
		As the comedy moves toward the final scene, we are well aware of the hour as the second merchant announces the pending arrival of the duke for the execution, since “the dial points at five” (5.1.18).
		To conclude The Comedy of Errors with a brief and trifling conflict about which of the twins is older--and therefore has the privilege of exiting first--certainly provides the restoration of the social order required at the conclusion of classic comedy.
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	The Comedy of Errors: Shakespeare's First Comedy
		Shakespeare’s comedies typically present a rustic or clown or servant-class love-match to parallel the higher born lovers and provide the frequent third couple at the wedding.
		Shakespeare uses the lesser source to provide exposition, and, interestingly, to introduce a framework that drapes most of his comedies and romances, which is the opposite of “comic relief” in his tragedies: these frame tales heighten the comedy by contrast with their dreadful external circumstances.
		Shakespeare’s source for the frame tale of The Comedy of Errors was most likely John Gower’s version of Appolonius of Tyre (which Shakespeare later re-used for Pericles), in which a king loses his wife and daughter at sea.
	www.bard.org /education/resources/shakespeare/comedyfirst.html (1245 words)

	Comedy of Errors
		Comedy is comedy, whether it springs from the singular brow of William Shakespeare or the collective ones of Curly, Larry and Moe.
		Helsinger is in his element with The Comedy of Errors, one of Shakespeare's earliest comedies and certainly the silliest and easiest to understand.
		This nimble comedy of mistaken identity begins with gloom; the elder Aegeon, a Syracusian by birth, is condemned to death by Solinus, Duke of Ephesus, unless a hefty ransom is delivered before sunset.
	www.shakespearefest.org /comedy_of_errors.htm (3577 words)

	BJU ~ Comedy of Errors
		The only plausible explanation for this unrealistic touch, which is necessary to the working of the plot, is that Egeon believed his older son, Antipholus of Ephesus, to be dead along with his servant; therefore he renamed the younger son and his servant for their deceased siblings.
		Although The Comedy is slight on thematic content, one major idea that emerges from the script and converges with the twin characters in the plot is the tension between illusion and reality.
		Two conventions of the climax of Shakespearean comedy are the revelation of true identity and the resolution of any romantic conflicts remaining in the plot.
	www.bju.edu /campus/fa/cod/cp/comedy (998 words)

	Floating-Point Computing: A Comedy of Errors?
		The error as measured by the more suitable unit of ULPs (Units in the Last Place) is not really large and it is further controllable by improving the summation algorithm.
		This rounding error is very small compared to the one that is possible due to the addition that follows the sqrt operations.
		IEEE 754 aids understanding where errors arise in computations by enabling us to work out what error is committed in each operation just by knowing the operands and the destination format; we need not know such system-dependent details as whether the hardware uses a guard bit or whether it chops or rounds.
	developers.sun.com /sunstudio/articles/fp_errors.html (1716 words)

	GradeSaver: Comedy of Errors Essay: The Comedy of Errors and Plautus
		In The Comedy of Errors, the only assurances we have that the play will end happily are the word Comedy in the title, and the romantic convention of the shipwreck which Shakespeare inserts into Egeon's narratio, and which will be found later in his other comedy of mistaken identity, The Twelfth Night.
		The slavery in The Comedy of Errors is not of a purely physical nature, though, it may just as easily be applied to each of the characters in a metaphorical sense.
		The final, single-scene act of The Comedy of Errors is devoted to the emancipation of the bound (with the significant exception of the Dromio twins) and to the restoration of the fragile identities which disintegrated throughout the course of the play.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/titles/comedyoferrors/essay1.html (2645 words)

	Comedy of errors - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A comedy of errors is dramatic work (often a play) that is light and often humorous or satirical in tone, in which the action usually features a series of comic instances of mistaken identity, and which typically culminates in a happy resolution of the thematic conflict.
		A slight variation of the "Comedy of Errors" descipline is Farcical theatre, which revolves around humour caused by the foolish mistakes of unintellgent characters and the chaos that devives from it.
		Many modern television situation comedies use comedy of errors as a standard plot device, often in every episode.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Comedy_of_errors (183 words)

	William Shakespeare: Comedy of Errors
		After such sport, a "Comedy of Erorrs" (like to Plautus his Menechmus) was played by the players; so that night began and continued to the end, in nothing but confusion and errors; whereupon it was ever afterwards called the Night of Errors.
		The "Comedy of Errors" is evidently one of Shakespeare's youthful works, and was probably written about 1591.
		The "Comedy of Errors" not only surpasses the "Menaechmi" in the greater complexity of its plot, its greater variety of incident, but also in its more generous treatment of human nature.
	geocities.com /litpageplus/shakmoul_comedyoferrors.html (543 words)

	Comedy of Errors
		Comedy of Errors is Shakespeare's first comedy, and definitely one of his funniest.
		In many ways Comedy of Errors is like watching a great old fl and white Marx Brothers or Three Stooges movie.
		Comedy of Errors is one of Shakespeare's most endearing plays: easy to understand, physical in its comedy.
	www.greenstage.org /1999/comedy/index.shtml (725 words)

	The Comedy of Errors - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Comedy of Errors is an early play by William Shakespeare, written between 1592 and 1594.
		A performance of "a comedy of errors like to Plautus his Menaechmi" by "a company of base and common fellows" is recorded in the Gesta Grayorum as having taken place in Gray's Inn hall on December 28, 1594.
		Angoor, a 1990 Urdu language adaptation of the Comedy of Errors story.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Comedy_of_Errors (2059 words)

	The Comedy of Errors Summary & Essays - William Shakespeare
		The Comedy of Errors is considered one of Shakespeare's earliest plays, possibly his first comedy and certainly his shortest play, written sometime between 1589 and 1594, although it was not printed until 1623.
		More recent criticism has focused on the play's genre (its "identity" as a tragedy, farce, comedy, or a combination of these) and the way in which it explores the issues of identity, gender, and love and marriage.
		Although The Comedy of Errors is Shakespeare's shortest play, it has generated a good deal of literary criticism.
	www.enotes.com /comedy-errors (538 words)

	Comedy
		Here is where the play turns into a "comedy of errors," for the brother of Antipholus is also named Antipholus, and the brother of Dromio is also named Dromio.
		It is sometimes classified as a "comedy of intrigue" or a "comedy of situation." The latter, like the modern TV situation comedy, relies heavily on mixups and sometimes slapstick.
		The Comedy of Errors reaches its climax in the last act when all of the principle characters assemble at the priory and the abbess produces Antipholus of Syracuse and his Dromio while the other Antipholus and Dromio and standing nearby.
	cummingsstudyguides.net /xComedy.html (2912 words)

	Goddess Diana in Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors
		Subtexts of Jealousy in Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors
		Baldwin, T.W. On the Compositional Genetics of The Comedy of Errors.
		Shelburne, Steven R. "The Nature of 'Error' in The Comedy of Errors." Explorations in Renaissance Culture XVIII (1992): 137-151.
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	The Comedy of Errors the play by William Shakespeare
		The Comedy of Errors relies heavily on mix-ups and witty dialogue.
		It is believed that The Comedy of Errors was first printed in 1623 as part of the First Folio.
		The setting for The Comedy of Errors is Ephesus, in present-day Turkey, which was a leading trade centre in ancient times.
	www.william-shakespeare.info /shakespeare-play-comedy-of-errors.htm (736 words)

	Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare. Search, Read, Study, Discuss. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The comedies ‘plots’ are mechanical and shamelessly idiotic.
		The most remarkable thing about the comedies is that not only are the plots asinine, the writing is far inferior to his other genres—maybe the comedies played better with the common folks, while the histories found a more educated audience and he wrote them accordingly.
		My second grade class is studying The Comedy of Errors for their 3rd quarter literary assignment.
	www.online-literature.com /shakespeare/errors (1124 words)

	Shakespeare's Sources for Comedy of Errors
		The plot of Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors was taken from the play The Menaechmi, written by the ancient Roman dramatist, Plautus.
		In The Comedy of Errors, the main plot is very similar to the work of Plautus, but Shakespeare deviates from his source by adding a second set of twins, and excluding three of the main characters.
		In Plautus, only one of the twin heroes is attended by his slave, and there is no suggestion of the delightful absurdity of a second pair of identical twins, attendant upon the first.
	www.shakespeare-online.com /sources/comedysources.html (402 words)

	Comedy of Errors
		The true situation is very much the opposite, with blatant errors and omissions ignored for a century and more, with countless examples of the ignorance and incompetence of many of the GRO clerks.
		From what we now know of the widespread errors and omissions in the GRO records, illustrated in these two books, we can see that the fatal flaw has been that this national record system has trusted to inadequately checked copies of original register entries for nearly two centuries.
		Errors would quickly have been found and steps could have been taken to improve the system.
	homepages.paradise.net.nz /mikefost (1599 words)

	Full text and plot summary of The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
		The Comedy of Errors may have been written as early as 1590 and was performed at Gray's Inn in 1594.
		While Egeus is forced to find the ransom before evening to avoid being put to death for being in Ephesus all the twins by accident have converged on Ephesus (the elder Antipholus is married there).
		As such the comedy of errors ensues with the wrong twins meeting and variously falling in love, escaping to convents and being confined as madmen.
	www.bibliomania.com /0/6/3/1054 (317 words)

	Comedy of Errors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		When fate conspires to bring all the lost family members together in Ephesus, the result is a comedy with the best that Shakespeare can offer, and of course it all comes out just fine in the end.
		Drawing its basic plot from a Greek comedy by Plautus, and from other Italian and French comedies; The Comedy of Errors is one of Shakespeare’s earlier comedies.
		One scene in which Antipholus of Ephesus is shut out of his own house, as well as the doubling of servants and masters are probably from the original Greek farce.
	www.lgshakes.org /Errors.htm (579 words)

	The web shouldn't be a comedy of errors - scottberkun.com (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-2.cs.princeton.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Error messages and handling should be thought of as a required part of any feature, and proper engineering time for error support should be budgeted into any development estimates or project schedules.
		Error UI should be conceived just like other parts of the UI—designed with the intent to shorten the distance between the user's goal and the completion of that goal.
		The way they are thinking about the error is always very different from the way you, as the developer, think about the error.
	www.scottberkun.com.cob-web.org:8888 /essays/essay10.htm (1210 words)

	Royal Shakespeare Company The Comedy of Errors on stage at Stratford Upon Avon's Royal Shakespeare Theatre
		Between these two episodes her production, vaguely set in the 1930s or 1940s, springs into theatrical life with sequences of sophisticated, dead-pan comedy, flashes of film noir, and old Hollywood cinema tricks, that recall the Keystone Cops and Harold Lloyd...
		She offers an endlessly inventive movie spoof, beginning with film noir in the opening scene, when Egeon is faced with a death sentence, before turning into a manic screwball comedy.
		There are wild chases involving pantomime camels and knights in armour from Henry IV from the Swan theatre next door and ingeniously choreographed fights, as the twins suffer repeated and ingenious identity crises in the bewildering town of Ephesus.
	www.albemarle-london.com /rsc-comedyoferrors.html (1198 words)

	The Old Globe - Productions - The Comedy of Errors
		Last seen at the Globe in 1997, The Comedy of Errors takes audiences on a wild ride with two sets of twins, a shipwreck, mistaken identities, and much more.
		The Bard's first comedy is an outrageous, farcical sample of his comic genius.
		The Comedy of Errors will run in nightly rotation with two other plays in the 2005 Shakespeare Festival: Macbeth and The Winter's Tale.
	www.theoldglobe.com /the_globe/show_production.asp?pPK=411 (406 words)

	Monarch Notes - Comedies of William Shakespeare (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-2.cs.princeton.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The earliest documented fact about William Shakespeare is to be found in the town register for births, deaths, and marriages - the Parish Register of the church of Stratford-on-Avon - which lists the date of Shakespeare's christening as April 26, 1564.
		The first period, 1590-1594 includes history plays and the early farces, The Comedy of Errors and The Taming of the Shrew, as well as the early romantic comedies, The Two Gentlemen of Verona and Love's Labour Lost.
		Even in comedy, Shakespeare seems to be concerned with the darker aspects of the human spirit, and it is only because All's Well and its companion piece, Measure for Measure, end happily that they are classified as "comedies." There is a great deal of bitterness and near tragedy in both.
	www.communism.net.cob-web.org:8888 /index1.html (1960 words)

	Comedy of Errors: Peformances: Illinois Shakespeare Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		While mistaken identity is a regular occurrence in Shakespeare's comedies, it is multiplied twofold in The Comedy of Errors.
		Once both sets of twins find themselves in the same town and the identities of all are mistaken, the errors are hilarious indeed.
		We welcome director Chuck Ney, formerly the artistic director of Idaho Repertory Theatre, who promises to reveal the absurd in what is often viewed as ordinary and conventional.
	www.thefestival.org /performances/comedy_of_errors.shtml (177 words)

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		The Comedy of Errors (2003, Bard On The Beach, Canada)
		The Comedy or Errors (1995, Bard On The Beach, Canada)
		Gibbons investigates the patterns of doubling in The Comedy of Errors and The Winter's Tale and their interplay with the dialogue of the texts:
	ise.uvic.ca /Library/plays/Err.html (320 words)

	Comedy
		To examine a series of international comedies from the ancient Greeks to modern Greeks to modern Europe, Africa, and America, focusing on comic strategies and traditions, on theatrical representation of comic effects, and on the kind of laughter provoked...
		Ancient Greek comedy ("Old Comedy"): staging and acting tradition.
		Roman comedy: the beginnings of commercially successful popular theater.
	www.umass.edu /complit/aclanet/comedy.htm (678 words)

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