What Were The Underlying Themes In William Shakespeares Play The Comedy Of Errors?
The Comedy of Errors was as the name suggests one of the comic plays written by William Shakespeare. The play was divided into five separate acts in the course of which one family is separated from each other owing to circumstances and reunited in the most peculiar way possible. The play was after all a comedy but it explored a number of deeper themes including time, appearance, fate, and the consequences of action, appearance, perception, coincidence, and love. The entire scene is one of chaos as, as is seen in most of Shakespeare’s comedies, mistaken identities cause confusion and every body thinks that the other is insane. The play starts with the Duke about to execute the old man from Syracuse Egeon and how he tells his story of having lost his wife, twin sons and their slaves in a tempest. The end has the family reunited in a humorous and happy sort of ending.
