Download or read book The Oxford Shakespeare: The Comedy of Errors written by William Shakespeare and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-05-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new modern-spelling edition of Shakespeare's shortest play and one of his most popular comedies. The introduction discusses the probably occasion of its first performance at Gray's Inn in December 1594, its multiple sources and its uneven critical and theatrical history. Appendices include the complete text of the play's main source, Plautus' Menaechmi, and extracts from Gesta Grayorum and the Geneva Bible.