![]() ![]() The play was also listed in 1598 by Francis Meres in his Palladis Tamia as “his Errors” between “his Gentlemen of Verona. Others merely note its early place in the canon, an early performance recorded for the Christmas revels at Gray’s Inn on December 28, 1594: “a Comedy of Errors (like to Plautus his Menechmus) (quoted in Shakespeare, 270). of directors who regard it as too inconsequential to survive without adaptation and embellishment” ( The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, ed. A more recent scholar, David Bevington, notes that since its earliest performances, it “has been the victim. more suited for a New Year’s Eve party than for a conference of critics” ( Shakespeare: The Complete Works, ed. ![]() ![]() Harrison, noted scholar of a generation ago, called it “very good fun on the stage, but. Through the years, critics have dismissed The Comedy of Errors, probably Shakespeare’s fourth play (behind the three Henry VIs), as a silly product of his youth, as an early experiment of embellished “translation,” and as fluff, froth, or farce–and therefore unworthy of serious consideration. ![]()
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