About the Play:

The Comedy of Errors is a madcap story about long-lost siblings and mistaken identities. Two sets of twins are separated by a shipwreck and end up in rival cities. After twenty years apart, they inadvertently cross paths in the same city on the same day and set in motion a series of chaotic events that hurtles towards an extraordinary finale. The Comedy of Errors is one of William Shakespeare's most popular comedies.

Read William Shakespeare's great comedy The Comedy of Errors in all its brilliance and actually understand what it means. No Fear Shakespeare gives you Shakespeare's complete text of The Comedy of Errors on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand modern English on the right, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character.

Shakespeare side-by-side in plain English. Each No Fear Shakespeare contains:
• The complete text of the original play
• A line-by-line translation that puts Shakespeare into the kind of English people actually speak today
• A complete list of characters with descriptions
• Plenty of helpful commentary

The Comedy of Errors is William Shakespeare's shortest play. It is believed to have been written in 1594 (making it probably the earliest of his comedies) and first published in the First Folio of 1623.

About the Playwright:

Arguably the greatest English-language playwright, William Shakespeare was a seventeenth-century writer and dramatist, and is known as the Bard of Avon. Under the patronage of Queen Elizabeth I, he penned more than 30 plays, 154 sonnets, and numerous narrative poems and short verses. Equally accomplished in histories, tragedies, comedy, and romance, Shakespeare's most famous works include Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, The Taming of the Shrew, and As You Like It. Like many of his contemporaries, including Christopher Marlowe, Shakespeare began his career on the stage, eventually rising to become part-owner of Lord Chamberlain's Men, a popular dramatic company of his day, and of the storied Globe Theatre in London. Extremely popular in his lifetime, Shakespeare's works continue to resonate more than three hundred years after his death. His plays are performed more often than any other playwright's, have been translated into every major language in the world, and are studied widely by scholars and students.