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University of Virginia literature professor Paul Cantor discusses Shakespeare comedies and his use of comedy. The discussion is split into three sections: 1. Comedy and Scepticism; 2. Shakespeare’s Comedy;...
Lecture 12 in the Approaching Shakespeare series asks how seriously we can take the farcical exploits of Comedy of Errors, drawing out the play’s serious concerns with identity and selfhood.
Video made to celebrate the post-lockdown reopening of the RSC’s theatres at Stratford-upon-Avon. Director Philip Breen, associate designer Ruth Hall, set and costume designer Max Jones, composer Paddy...
Audio podcast. Drew Lichtenberg (Audience Enrichment Manager) and Hannah Hessel Ratner (Literary Manager) from the Shakespeare Theatre Company are joined by actor Ted van Griethuysen in a conversation about...
Film adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors, made in the style of a 1960s musical comedy.
Podcast series. Husband-and-wife Aidan and Lindsay discuss the comic elements in Shakespeare’s plays (not just in his comedies).
Recording of an online audiovisual presentation by Kent Lehnhof (Chapman University) on twins in Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors. The lecture is followed by a conversation moderated Julia Reinhard...
Comedy Sketch. David Tenannt and Michael Sheen appear respectively as William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe in the style of their lockdown comedy series, STAGED. Special guest appearance by Sir Lenny...
Audio podcast. In this episode Sara Plasskett and her husband Eli look at The Merry Wives of Windsor as an example of the then popular city comedy genre.
One of Shakespeare’s earliest and shortest plays, "The Comedy of Errors" centres on a family catastrophe. A Merchant, Egeon has identical twin sons who are both names Antipholus. To him, it makes perfect...
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