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November 2025: British Lit > The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare, 4 stars

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Jen (jentrewren) | 1134 comments I enjoyed this insane story even if it was very politically incorrect for modern times. Brothers separated shortly after birth in a shipwreck end up in the same town where one has lived most of his life. They keep being mistaken for each other and only getting half of conversations, they think everyone else has gone mad and everyone else thinks they have gone mad. Not sure a modern author would describe a woman as "she is a wonderous fat marriage", "she's the kitchen-wench, all grease; and I know not what use to put her to, but to make a lamp of her", "No longer from heat to foot than from hip to hip: she is spherical, like a globe; I could find out countries in her." Very politically incorrect for modern times, but funny in the context of the story and the time it was written.


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