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The Comedy of Errors

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Englisch-deutsche Studienausgabe

The Comedy of Errors / Die Komödie der Irrungen

Deutsche Prosafassung, Anmerkungen, Einleitung und Kommentar von Kurt Tetzeli von Rosador.
Stauffenburg Verlag

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on-line editions

Folio (1623) (09/05/00)

Folio (1623) (University of Virginia)

Oxford Edition (W.J. Craig, 1914) [www.bartleby.com/70/index15.html] (Nov. 2001)

Promptbooks of the 17th Century ed. G. Blakemore-Evans. (University of Virginia) (25/04/01)

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translations

Die Irrungen oder die doppelten Zwillinge, Chr. M. Wieland (Gutenberg) [http://projekt.gutenberg.de/shakespr/irrungen/irrungen.htm] (May 2002)

Shakespeare in Italian, transl. Goffredo Raponi [http://www.liberliber.it]

La commedia degli errori / The Comedy of Errors Italian Translation.(PDF-file)

Klucht der vergissingen Dutch translation. by Jan Jonk. [http://www.janjonk.nl/] (March 2002)

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sources

Plautus,
Menaechmi (in Latin)
Plautus,
Menaechmi, (in Latin) ed. F. Leo
Plautus,
Menaechmi, in English
Plautus, Menaechmi of Plautus, trans. W. Warner, 1595: not available.

Plautus,
Amphitruo (in Latin)
John Gower,
Confessio Amantis
John Gower,
Confessio Amantis


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productions, performances

a) stage history

Current and forthcoming Shakespeare productions in the UK [http://www.touchstone.bham.ac.uk/performance/shakespeare%20productions.html] (April 2002)

The Traffic on Stage (Shakespeare Productions 1999 - 2002 in the UK) [http://www.is.bham.ac.uk/testjon3/] (April 2002)

Shakespeare at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre (1906-1960) [http://www.touchstone.bham.ac.uk/exhibition/Birmingham/home.html] (April 2002)

b) actors, pictures of performances

The Cleveland Press Shakespeare Photographs by Lesley Ellen Jorbin. Free searchable database for pictures of performances: photographs from the plays of Shakespeare on stage, screen, TV, opera and ballet. [http://www.ulib.csuohio.edu/shakespeare/]

c) reviews of productions

Parker, Lynne.
RSC 2000/2001 reviews.
Hunter, Kathryn.
London, Globe 1999. reviews
Lennox, Patricia.
THE BOMB-ITTY OF ERRORS. Review of the musical.
Pereira, Kim.
The Comedy of Errors. The Illinois Shakespeare Festival's 1995 production of The Comedy of Errors (unique in its "How 1940's Hollywood Viewed America" approach).
Robert Woodruff,
Broadway, 1986 (play)
The Boys from Syracuse (musical),
Performances on Broadway

Williams, George Walton.
Staging the Adulterate Blot in The Comedy of Errors

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film versions

Internet Movie Database [http://www.imdb.com/Name?Shakespeare,+William]
Shakespeare on Television: a bibliography of criticism

Comedy of Errors (USA; 2000) dir. Wendell Sweda [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0245841]
The Comedy of Errors (Canada, 1989) (TV) dir. Richard Monette [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0122024]
Big Business (1988) dir. Jim Abrahams; female twins [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0094739]
The Comedy of Errors (USA, 1985) (TV) dir. Gregory Mosher, Robert Woodruff [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0088941]
The Comedy of Errors (BBC, 1983) dir. James Cellan Jones [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0085351]
The Comedy of Errors, (UK, 1978) (TV) dir. Philip Casson, Trevor Nunn http://us.imdb.com/Title?0077359]
Komediya oshibok (USSR, 1978)dir. Fridrikh Gorenshtein [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0170117]
The Comedy of Errors (UK, 1964) dir. Peter Duguid, Clifford Williams [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0057959]
Komödie der Irrungen (W. Germany 1964) dir. Hans-Dieter Schwarze [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0058273]
The Comedy of Errors. (UK, 1954) (TV) dir. Lionel Harris [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0046864]
The Boys from Syracuse. musical, (USA 1940) dir. A. Edward Sutherland. Writing credits George Abbott [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0032276]

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adaptations in literature

Titles from Comedy of Errors [http://www.barbarapaul.com/shake/errors.html]

Hull, Thomas.
Comedy of Errors (1793) [http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/HulCome.html]

Lamb, Charles and Mary. Tales from Shakespeare:
Comedy of Errors
Lamb, Charles and Mary.
Tales, ill. by Arthur Rackham [http://209.11.144.65/eldritchpress/cml/tfs.html] (May 2002)
Lamb, Charles and Mary.
Tales, ill. by Gertrude Hammond (1878) [http://www.bartleby.com/1012/]

Nesbit, Edith.
Beautiful Tales from Shakespeare

Poole, John. Ye Comedie of Errours. (play) 1858.

Reynolds, Frederick. The Comedy of Errors. (play) 1819.

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adaptations in music

A Bombitty of Errors: musical: Shakespeare and hip-hop
Lennox, Patricia.
THE BOMB-ITTY OF ERRORS. Review.

Richard Rodgers,
The Boys from Syracuse musical. [http://liber.ithaca.edu/MARION/ACU-4834] (May 2002)
synopsis, some songs: [http://www.stageagent.com/cb/info.pl/ti/boys_from_syracuse] (May 2002)
Performances on Broadway
The Boys from Syracuse. musical film, (USA 1940) dir. A. Edward Sutherland. Writing credits George Abbott (play) [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0032276]


Operas
for details see: [http://members.it.tripod.de/amelia/] (in Italian)

Bishop, Henry Rowley (1786-1855)
Comedy of Errors, 1819
Krejci, Isha (1904)
Efesu , 1946
Lorenz, Karl Adolf (1837-1923)
Die Komödie der Irrungen, 1890
Storace, Stephen (1762-1796) (text: Lorenzo Da Ponte)
Gli equivoci, 1786
Wödl, F. Komödie der Irrungen, 1941

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paintings

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criticism

Farley-Hills, David. The Theatrical Provenance of the Comedy of Errors, pp. 220-222 in: Notes and Queries, vol. 49, issue 2002, pdf-file. [http://www3.oup.co.uk/notesj/hdb/Volume_49/Issue_02/] (June 2002)

Gibbons, Brian. Doubles and Likenesses with difference: The Comedy of Errors and The Winter's Tale. in: Connotations 6.1. [http://www.uni-saarland.de/fak4/fr43/connotations/GIBBON61.HTM] (May 2002)

Moulton: From The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors, ed. Charles Wells Moulton, 8 vols. (London: Moulton Publishing, 1901), 1: 466-68.

O'Brien, Viking Robert.
The Madness of Syracusan Antipholus

Pereira, Kim.
The Comedy of Errors. The Illinois Shakespeare Festival's 1995 production of The Comedy of Errors was unique in its "How 1940's Hollywood Viewed America" approach.

Williams, George Walton.
Staging the Adulterate Blot in The Comedy of Errors

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in the classroom


a) material and lesson plans for lazy teachers:

see also on this site: Education - Shakespeare in the classroom

Cummings, Michael.
The Complete Shakespeare - Study Guide to Shakespeare. [http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xShakeSph.html#top] (Jan. 2002) Comedy of Errors [http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xShakeSph.html#topComedy.html]

Massi, JM.
study questions. [http://www.jetlink.net/~massij/wssq/comedy.htm] (25/06/01)

b) websites for the eager student

Cummings, Michael. The Complete Shakespeare - Study Guide to Shakespeare. [http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xShakeSph.html#top] (Jan. 2002) Comedy of Errors [http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xShakeSph.html#topComedy.html]

Classic Notes [http://www.classicnote.com/ClassicNotes/Titles/comedyoferrors/] (Nov. 2001)

Shakespeare for teachers and students [http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/shakes.htm] with lesson plans (Jan. 2002)

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deutsche Webseiten

Andriz, Rod:
Komödie der Irrungen (deutsche Webseite) - Hintergründe und Informationen

Gröchel, André. Das kleine Shakespeare-Brevier:
Die Komödie der Irrungen: Inhalt, Wurzeln, Quellen. Falls dieser Link nicht klappt: [http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.deslit.de/shakespeare/irrung.htm]


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Just for Fun

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