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'''''The Comedy of Errors''''' is a play by [[William Shakespeare]] and one of his earlier comedies (and one of his shortest), from 1589.  It involves ridiculous coincidences, when two twin brothers and their twin servants are mistaken for each other.
 
'''''The Comedy of Errors''''' is a play by [[William Shakespeare]] and one of his earlier comedies (and one of his shortest), from 1589.  It involves ridiculous coincidences, when two twin brothers and their twin servants are mistaken for each other.
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Shakespeare draws on the [[Geneva Bible]], as here by Dromio of Syracuse [IV, 3, line 1166]:
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{{cquote|Not that Adam that kept the Paradise but that Adam that keeps the prison: he that goes in the calf's skin that was killed for the Prodigal; he that came behind you, sir, like an evil angel, and bid you forsake your liberty.}}
    
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Comedy of Errors, A}}
 
{{DEFAULTSORT:Comedy of Errors, A}}
 
[[Category:Plays of Shakespeare]]
 
[[Category:Plays of Shakespeare]]
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[[Category:Shakespeare]]
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