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Robson & Crane in Shakespeare's "Comedy of Errors"; Metropolitan Litho. Studio, 1879

The Comedy of Errors (c. 1589–94) is one of the first plays by William Shakespeare. It is a comedy. Shakespeare's sources were Menaechmi by Plautus and Amphitruo by Plautus.


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  • The Comedy of Errors, OVO, St Albans, Nov 2011

    Antipholus of Ephesus returns home and is refused entry to his own house. A 2011 production by OVO theatre company, St Albans, Hertfordshire

  • Comedy of errors IV.i

    An 1816 watercolor of Act IV, Scene i: Antipholus of Ephesus, an officer, and Dromio of Ephesus.

  • First-page-first-folio-comedy-of-errors

    The first page of the play, printed in the First Folio of 1623

  • ComedyErrors1

    The Dromios from a frontispiece dated 1890

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: La comedia de las equivocaciones para niños

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