The Comedy of Errors (Vol. 26) | T. S. Dorsch (essay date 1988)
T. S. Dorsch (essay date 1988)
SOURCE: An introduction to The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare, edited by T. S. Dorsch, Cambridge University Press, 1988, pp. 1-39.
[In the following essay, Dorsch highlights various productions of 'The Comedy of Errors, from the debut of the work to Adrian Noble's 1983 revival at Stratford. Noting the play's continued popularity, Dorsch concludes, "it has been and always will be good theatre."]
The first known performance of The Comedy of Errors, at Gray's Inn … took place in 1594. Ten years later, again on Innocents' Day, it was played as part of the Christmas festivities at Court. There follows a long gap in its history on the stage, but some early references to it have come down to us. It is listed among Shakespeare's comedies in Francis Meres's Palladis Tamia of 1598, and The Shakespeare Allusion-Book records a number of seventeenth-century allusions, but from this...
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