A review by maggie_elisabeth
The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare

3.0

Prior to reading this play, I had mostly read some of Shakespeare's more famous works. I believe this is one of his earlier plays, which actually makes a lot of sense. The main thing that stuck out to me from this is that most of the lines RHYME. I'm okay with a little bit of rhyme, but to the extent of this play, it was kind of weird to be honest. I think it made the actual sentences more difficult to understand. Not my favorite, but certainly interesting. The plot itself is an extremely unrealistic, albeit funny, story of mistaken identities. Two identical twin brothers who happen to have identical twin brother servants, get separated from each other as infants. When one brother and his servant reach the town where the other ones reside, it causes lots of confusion!:)

Overall, I would say this was a funny read, but nowhere near Shakespeare's masterpieces. When you're expecting Hamlet, The Comedy of Errors just doesn't quite cut it.