Maybe a smart guy like yourself could understand that comedies are about not taking yourself so seriously. Have a nice day.
Maybe a smart guy like yourself could understand that comedies are about not taking yourself so seriously. Have a nice day.
Whoever wrote this is a stupid bloody idiot...have u ever performed this play??? or have you enjoyed a performance....do that before you judge its an awesome and entertaining experience you jackass
i couldn't agree with you more. i think the world would be a much brighter place if ole willy shakespeare never existed at all.
Where have you been living for the past 500 years? This play is something better than anyone of this time could write.
give the poor guy a break - he is dead and you are talking behind his back and taking the rip out of his lifes work. he probably wanted a break from all the serious things he was continually writing.
Gee, you're SO smart! To think that that idiot Shakespeare came up with that piece of drivel when he was - what?- Twenty two years old ? I'll bet you were writing insightful literary critiques from birth! If I may say so- you might want to work on your spelling, the word is "voila" not "vioila". I sure wish Will were alive today to benefit from your discerning criticism. He might have amounted to something!
The thing most people don't understand is that most of Shakespeare's stories were actually taken from myths. There were already told by someone else. Also take into consideration that these scripts were never intended to be read by anyone other than the actors. Please consider viewing a performance of the comedies before giving them your final judgement.
The Comedy of Errors is an absolutely awful play. Clearly some Shakespeare plays are written better than others, and everyone can have a bad day—but by my estimation any of the Bard's histories or tragedies are superior to any of his comedies. The plays all follow the same ridiculous formula, centered on the unbelievable and forced theme of mistaken identity. Badgering wives, idiot husbands, greedy girlfriends, argumentative servants—cut-and-dried, stock characters in absurd, stylized scenarios that defy ‘the willing suspension of disbelief’. The comedies ‘plots’ are mechanical and shamelessly idiotic. That Shakespeare would write this pathetic plotline once would be forgivable (perhaps he was under duress), but since the theme is carbon-copied throughout most of his other comedies one must truly ask…what inspired such similar, silly writing? The most remarkable thing about the comedies is that not only are the plots asinine, the writing is far inferior to his other genres—maybe the comedies played better with the common folks, while the histories found a more educated audience and he wrote them accordingly. The comedies certainly seem ‘dummied down’ by the exalted standard to which I hold the Bard. This play is particularly annoying, since it compounds its worst qualities by introducing not one, but two sets of identical twins—twice the saccharine-laced, inane complexities; double the yawns; exponential expansion of reader ennui. PLOT: A father searches for his son and is arrested. Although his character is the most compelling in the play, he’s forgotten until the last few pages. The son has a servant; both son and servant have doppelgangers and it’s a mistaken-identity carousel of predictable, farcical idiocy until the finale when—Vioila!—all is made clear, everyone gets their girl and a wretchingly happy ending is enjoyed by all. Wow—this play really stinks. Extremely one-dimensional, see-em-a-mile-away, central-casting type ‘characters’ and a ‘plot’ barely qualifying as such. Avoid this play as you would an Elizabethan urologist. Best Lines: None. Don’t go looking, either—they're not there.<br>
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