Shakesphere
ShakesphereWhen a play that was written by William Shakespeare is presented to an audience, the audience automatically assumes that the play will have tragic or dramatic connotation. But is there a such thing as a Shakespearean comedy? This question is answered when Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors is read. In this play, Shakespeare creates comedy using awkward situations and playing on different words.
The first situation in the play that is "slightly" abnormal is the general scenario. There are identical twin brothers that are split up at a very young age. This is believable. It even has probably happened in real life before. The mind-blowing part of this equation is that the identical twin brothers have identical twin servants that were split up at birth in the same fashion. Coincidentally, one servant ends up in on the city of Syracuse with one of the brothers and the other servant ends up in Ephesus with the other brother. Both sets of twin brothers had the same name. Both masters were Antipholous and both servants were Dromio. Is that not ironic?
Shakespeare also creates comedy by making fun of other characters. For example, in Act 3, Scene 2,...
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