Intro comedy of errors - introduction
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What is the main theme- objective o f the play
Unsettling the familiar
questioning the reliability material reality
How and where does the unsettling take place
Antipholus of Syracuse talks about how everyone greets him as if he were a friend, tnkins it witchcraft
Dromio claims it is fairyland
What question is raised (also due to almost unresolved ending)
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How did the play came into beig
-based on farce Menaechmi by plautus
-performed a a law school in 1594
appeared in folio in 1623
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How did Shakespere adapt the farce
-different city Epheseus, associated with witchcraft etc
-added second set of twins; servants
-adds charcter for stakes
-romance elements highlighted
-christian element;pagan setting but end moral penaltlty wipd out by loving dispensation (but chritsianty anachronistic
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