The play written by William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors, is a comedy indeed. This is so because it is a farce. A farce is a comedy in which the reader and or audience is overfilled with laughter and excitement brought about in the plays actions and monolog. This play is also filled with error. The error present in the play creates confusion and mixed emotions amongst the characters, this feeds into the comical side of the play, avoiding melancholy starts and endings.
The farce is brought about through series of mix up with the main characters (being that there are two sets of twins). Adriana, Antipholus of Ephesus’ (one of the many twins) wife, has mistaken him for his lost twin brother Antipholus of Syracuse, who beings to fall
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