Arthos, John. "Shakespeare's Transformation of Plautus." Comparative Drama 1, No. 4 (Winter 1967-68): 239-53.

Discusses Shakespeare's substitution of a hierarchical social order for Plautus's disordered and confused collection of citizens, and asserts that such a change shows Shakespeare's predilection for just and ordered societies.

Baker, Susan. "Status and Space in The Comedy of Errors." Shakespeare Bulletin 8, No. 2 (Spring 1990): 6-8.

Discusses various staging issues in The Comedy of Errors in light of the acting theories of Keith Johnstone, which highlight the play's emphasis on displacement, dislocation, and dispossession.

Clubb, Louise George. "Italian Comedy and The Comedy of Errors." Comparative Literature XIX, No. 3 (Summer 1967): 240-51.

Relates The Comedy of Errors to the commedia grave of the Italian counter-reformation. Though no direct link can be found in the compositional genetics of The Comedy of Errors, Clubb cites certain features that distinguish the Comedy and the commedia grave from the medieval Italian comedies: the lesser role of the courtesan, the "addition of pathos," the theme of jealousy, the theme of madness and sorcery, and the reunification of the characters at the close of the play.

Grivelet, Michel. "Shakespeare, Molière, and the Comedy of Ambiguity." Shakespeare Survey 22 (1969): 15-26.

Develops a psychological theory of comedy and laughter and discusses the similarities and differences between Plautus's Menaechmi and its different adaptations in Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors and Molière's Amphitryon.

Hamilton, A. C. "The Early Comedies: The Comedy of Errors." In The Early Shakespeare, pp. 90-108. San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 1967.

Explores The Comedy of Errors as a harbinger of Shakespeare's mature work, discussing both the many strengths already present and the weaknesses that were later to be improved upon.

Levin, Harry. "Two Comedies of Errors." In Refractions: Essays in Comparative Literature, pp. 128-50. New York: Oxford University Press, 1966.

Reviews the similarities and differences between The Comedy of Errors and the Menaechmi. Levin concentrates on the problem of identity and demonstrates that Shakespeare deepened Plautus's two-dimensional play.

Marcotte, Paul J. "Luciana's Prothalamion: Comedy, Error, Domestic Tragedy." College Literature IX, No. 2 (Spring 1982): 147-49.

A defense of Adriana, which uses, virtually without comment, quotations from Shakespeare and other contemporary authors to show that women are as a matter of course very ill-treated by men in general and their husbands in particular.

Parker, Patricia. "Elder and Younger: The Opening Scene of The Comedy of Errors." Shakespeare Quarterly 34, No. 3 (Autumn 1983): 325-27.

Explicates a textual point concerning the division of Egeon's family during the original shipwreck that prepares for the plot of The Comedy of Errors.

Slights, Camille Wells. "Time's Debt to Season: The Comedy of Errors, IV.ii.58." English Language Notes XXIV, No. 1 (Sept. 1986): 22-25.

Proposes an interpretation of what has been taken for a corrupted passage by most Shakespeare editors and connects it with an interpretation of the play's treatment of time as one of its structuring themes.

Weller, Barry. "Identity and Representation in Shakespeare." English Literary History 49, No. 2 (Summer 1982): 339-62.

Includes a brief discussion of The Comedy of Errors in the context of an analysis of Shakespeare's treatment of the theme of self-discovery.