The Comedy of Errors (Vol. 34) | Arthur F. Kinney (essay date 1988)
Arthur F. Kinney (essay date 1988)
SOURCE: "Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors and the Nature of Kinds," in Studies in Philology, Vol. LXXXV, No. 1, Winter, 1988, pp. 29-52.
[Discussing The Comedy of Errors in terms of dramatic genre, Kinney explores liturgical influences shaping the play.]
In his extraordinarily helpful study, Shakespeare and the Confines of Art, Philip Edwards works from premises that may seem in the abstract not only potentially complex but paradoxical. One of them is this:
The protean Shakespeare seems to change his being as he moves from the cosmos of Hamlet to that of Othello, of Lear, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra. Our attempts to synthesize and catch the common factors too often hide the more obvious and more important quality of dissimilarity. The characters speak different languages, were brought up in different moral worlds, face entirely new...
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