How Comedic is it?

             Comedy of Errors? What does it mean? Though, this sounds funny and interesting, I wonder how this came to be? Why is the title like this? How significant could it be?

            The “Comedy of Errors” is the shortest play of William Shakespeare. It was said to be one of his earliest plays, perhaps the first. The play itself has 16,258 words. The exact date of its composition is unknown but it was first performed on December 28, 1594 at Gray Inn’s Christmas Revels. This work of William Shakespeare was inspired by two Roman comedies of Plautus.

            The “Comedy of Errors” was about the story of twin brothers with their twin slaves who have been separated.  The twin brothers were named as Antipholus’ and the twin brothers that are slaves were named as Dromio’s. Their father and their mother who brought each pair with them were brought to separate places. In this case, they have been separated as one of the Antipholus brothers with one of the Dromio brothers. Their separation gives way to their search of their missing pair.

            This story of the play made me confused. At some time, I can’t stop myself from asking “Who’s who?”. Yet, the part that the play really caught my attention, I decided to get onto it. There was this part that Antipholus of Ephesus slap this Dromio of Syracuse for telling him inappropriate things. There’s this part as well that Antipholus of Syracuse dined with the wife of Antipholus of Ephesus that this Antipholus of Ephesus wasn’t able to enter his own house. That was really funny. Other parts as well, prove that this is a comedy of errors.

            Mistaking your husband’s look-alike as your real husband that you were able to let him got trapped outside your house, talking to your master’s look-alike thinking that he was your real master and getting slapped in the face without doing anything wrong, since you’ve been telling him senseless ones while talking to the wrong person, and giving commands to your slaves as if he was your real slave.

            I cannot stop myself from laughing since errors and mistakes were seen by me all throughout. Yet, there is the fact that its first purpose is to entertain readers, listeners, and viewers, it stays reminding us how to be so sure within every single thing that we are doing.

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