The Comedy of Errors | Bibliography and Further Reading
Literary Commentary
Arthos, John, "Shakespeare's Transformation of Plautus," Comparative Drama 1, No. 4 (Winter 1967-68): 239-53.
Discusses how Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors differs from and parallels its predecessor, Plautus's Menaechmus.
Baker, Susan, "Status and Space in The Comedy of Errors," Shakespeare Bulletin 8, No. 2 (Spring 1990): 6-8.
Argues that in The Comedy of Errors, the characters repeatedly "encounter sites and situations where the status they're prepared to play is not allowed to them," and these "spatial transgressions,...
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