Category: The Comedy of Errors

Thank you to Thomas Luxon for offering a video introduction for The Comedy of Errors.

Thomas H. Luxon is Professor of English at Dartmouth College. He is the General Editor of The John Milton Reading Room,  an online edition of Milton’s complete poetry and major prose. He is also the author of two books, one on Bunyan and Puritan allegory and another on Milton, Marriage, and Friendship. For nine years, Luxon was the Cheheyl Professor and founding director of the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning, a center devoted to teachers’ professional development. he has also published essays on Shakespeare and Dryden. Last year he offered an an online EdX course on Milton’s Paradise Lost.

Many thanks to my friend Joey Bianco of Whim Wham for the animated video elements.

Here are some helpful Comedy of Errors resources:

• Classic Stage Company has a wonderful PDF guide to The Comedy of Errors. See especially the plot layout on pages 11-12 (PDF pages 12-13).
• Course Hero has a great infographic for The Comedy of Errors as well as their usual character map.
• A full production of The Comedy of Errors from Shakespeare by the Sea, available on YouTube.
• A short synopsis of The Comedy of Errors from Tracie Lane, also available on YouTube.
• In the category of “different but related,” here’s the true story of twins in Canada separated at birth and reunited years later.

Thanks for Dan Hainsworth for letting us use his Shakespeare icons, as shown above right.

Enjoy these Comedy of Errors images from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Find more here.