October 8, 2012
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Week 41: Comedy of Errors
Started working through Shakespeare again. Picked up Comedy of Errors from the library last time I was there and just finished it. Actually one of the more annoying Shakespeare plays I’ve written. I know a lot of his comedies are based on role-switching and confusion and whatnot, but this one is about two sets of twins.
I thought I understood that at the beginning of the story, one of the twins was in the city in order to look for his twin. Under this belief, I thought that meant all of the twins knew that they had twin brothers somewhere in the world. If that were true though, and one brother is looking for another brother, it really shouldn’t have taken five acts for them to realize they had found each other? I mean, if you know you have an identical twin, you go to a city you’ve never been to before, and everyone acts like they know you, wouldn’t that tip you off that you’re in the right place and that your twin lives nearby?
Anyway, so that just made me sort of frustrated at how the story was dragging on. =/
My advice – skip this one. There are plenty more Shakespeare plays in the sea.
