The Comedy of Errors | Love and Marriage
In the first excerpt, Peter G. Phialas argues that Shakespeare's use of the concept of romantic love in The Comedy of Errors sets the stage for its function as the "chief structural principle" of his later romantic comedies. Dorothea Kehler, in the second selection, notes that Adriana and, her husband, Antipholus of Ephesus, "could pass for a well-to-do modern couple headed for divorce."
Peter G. Phialas
[In this excerpt, Phialas argues that Shakespeare's use of the concept of romantic love in The Comedy of Errors sets the stage for its function as the "chief structural principle" of his later romantic comedies. Although, Phialas argues, love and marriage are not treated in any great depth and there is not much that is especially memorable about the relationship between men and women in the play, the fact that Shakespeare addresses such issues is significant in and of itself far...
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