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)

What is the self? What are the gauratees of identuty? How does one person represent one another
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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

What does gold chain represent-symbolises

Interlinked network of obligations and exchanges are caught

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