CRITICISM

Clayton, Thomas. “The Text, Imagery, and Sense of the Abbess's Final Speech in The Comedy of Errors.” Anglia: Zeitschrift für Englische Philologie 91, no. 4 (1973): 479-84.

Textual analysis of the Abbess's reunion-crowning speech in Act V, scene i of The Comedy of Errors, emphasizing its imagery of rebirth and spiritual reawakening.

Gibbons, Brian. “Erring and Straying Like Lost Sheep: The Winter's Tale and The Comedy of Errors.” Shakespeare Survey 50 (1997): 111-23.

Comparative study of dramatic modes and of such concepts as doubling, identity, and the union of man and wife in The Comedy of Errors and The Winter's Tale.

Kinney, Arthur F. “Staging The Comedy of Errors.” In Shakespeare Text and Theater: Essays in Honor of Jay L. Halio, edited by Lois Potter and Arthur F. Kinney, pp. 320-31. Cranbury, N.J.: Associated University Presses, 1999.

Sets The Comedy of Errors within its religious, political, social, and literary contexts as a stage play of the late sixteenth century.

Sellar, Tom. Review of The Comedy of Errors. Village Voice 47, no. 29 (23 July 2002): 58.

Finds Robert Richmond's staging of The Comedy of Errors with the Aquila Theater Company in 2002 too slight and relentlessly silly.

Taylor, Gary. “Textual and Sexual Criticism: A Crux in The Comedy of Errors.” Renaissance Drama. n.s. 19 (1988): 195-225.

Contends that a passage spoken by Adriana in Act II, scene i of The Comedy of Errors has been corrupted by editors of the play and points to sexist prejudices within the text.

Wyrick, Deborah Baker. “The Ass Motif in The Comedy of Errors and A Midsummer Night's Dream.” Shakespeare Quarterly 33, no. 4 (winter 1982): 432-48.

Explicates the epithet “ass” used frequently in Shakespearean drama, particularly in The Comedy of Errors and A Midsummer Night's Dream, as “a complex verbal cipher” with numerous symbolic and thematic overtones.