The Comedy of Errors (Vol. 26) | Robert E. Wood (essay date 1986)
Robert E. Wood (essay date 1986)
SOURCE: "Cooling the Comedy: Television as a Medium for Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors, " in Shakespeare on Television: An Anthology of Essays and Reviews, edited by J. C. Bulman and H. R. Coursen, University Press of New England, 1988, pp. 200-07.
[In the following essay, which was first published in 1986, Wood examines the BBC television adaptation of The Comedy of Errors, noting that the multiple perspectives offered by the camera provide "the requisite element of surprise within a framework of familiarity."]
Until the massive project of televising the Shakespearean canon was undertaken by the BBC, there had been little reason for examining the adaption of Shakespeare to television. But as the project reaches completion, we find that its varied approaches to the plays often suggest a remarkable compatibility between television and Shakespearean performance. In Understanding Media...
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