The Comedy of Errors

The Comedy of Errors is one of Shakespeare’s earliest plays and one of his most popular comedies. It is a fast-paced farce involving mistaken identities and two sets of twins–identical masters and their identical servants. The high jinks begin as soon as all four twins wind up in the same city, and everything goes down hill from there. Puns, word play, and slapstick! Accusations of infidelity, theft, madness, and demonic possession! And a great scene describing what could be called the ugliest woman in the world.