Comedy of errors

The Comedy of Errors is one of William Shakespeare's earliest plays. It is his shortest and one of his most farcical comedies, with a major part of the humour coming from slapstick and mistaken identity, in addition to puns and word play. The Comedy of Errors (along with The Tempest) is one of only two of Shakespeare's plays to observe the classical unities. It has been adapted for opera, stage, screen and musical theatre.




From the title alone you can already tell what genre of play is this. I guessed that the title is like that because the play is funny because of the mistakes or errors made by the characters. When I understood the play, I learned that my hypothesis is correct. The play was really confusing, at the same time, funny. Funny because of the mistakes the characters have done. There are so many twists in the story that I never thought that will happen which made the play really interesting. I think watching it would be more exciting. I often get confused on the names because the pair of twins has the same name with their twin brother and just the place where they came from was different. But still, I understood the play even with so many confusions and mistakes.

All in all the story was great, another masterpiece by William Shakespeare.