SHAKESPEARE: COMEDY OF ERRORS

Coordinators: Roy Clary, Jim Brook, Ellie Schaffer

The class will explore the shortest and most unified of all of Shakespeare’s plays.

Written around 1593, it is his first comedy and abounds in witty dialogue, romantic subplots, and themes of identity and social harmony. Shakespeare steals from The Twin Menaechmi by the Roman playwright, Plautus, by creating the wonderful absurdity of two sets of identical twins. In turn, his comedy was transformed into the Boys from Syracuse by Rodgers and Hart.

While the emphasis will be on Shakespeare’s play, there will be time to explore both the Roman play and the American musical. (The Folger Library edition is preferred.)

A WEEK / WEDNESDAY / 10:30 AM – NOON / HYBRID / AUDITORIUM

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