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.
Thank you, this was so helpful! As I am interested in questions of gender in the play, I was attuned to marriage scenes and dialogue already, but your interpretation helped me rethink the marriages as parallel friendships to those of the twin brothers. I had not even considered the geographical locations of Corinth and Ephesus as a reference to Paul’s teachings on marriage. Very interesting!