Book Review of The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
The comedy of errors is
one of the Shakespeare’s early plays. It is his shortest and one of his most
farcical comedies, with a major part of humour coming from mistaken identity.
The book has story of two twin brothers and their twin slaves. The story starts with a death threat
hovering over an old merchant for breaking some silly rules. He tries to win
duke’s sympathy by telling him the story how he lost his family i.e. his wife and
his two twin sons and their twin slaves. Coincidently one of his lost sons and
one slave was settled in same city for long time.
Another coincidence happens when other twin brother
and slave also visit the city. And there happen lot of chaos which results in
slapstick comedy as everyone in the city as well as their family mistook their
identity as not only the set of twins has identical faces but they have
identical names.
There is a lot of fun and confusion, but, of course, it all ends
happily ever after.
As for the book I had very big expectation from it, it
doesn’t turn out that great that may be because of various reasons. First
reason could be that the plot wasn’t new for me. And second thing is
Shakespeare must have written this book in as early as in 1500 or 1600. Because
of that some of the things are not as relevant or as funny today as they might
have been at that time.
Despite the silliness of the plot it is a funny and
quite enjoyable play.
The Comedy of Errors presents a spectacle of pure
farce in the spirit of utmost fun and as the title suggests hilarious confusion.
It might not be a best work of Shakespeare but it is
very good entertaining book. If I have to rate it, I will give it 8/10.
Reference
Shakespeare, W. (2018). The comedy of errors. ProQuest
Ebook Central https://ebookcentral.proquest.com
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