When a play that was written by William Shakespeare is presented to an audience, the audience automatically assumes that the play will have tragic or dramatic connotation. But is there a such thing as a Shakespearean comedy? This question is answered when Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors is read. In this play, Shakespeare creates comedy using awkward situations and playing on different words. The first situation in the play that is "slightly" abnormal is the general scenario. There are identical twin brothers that are split up at a very young age. This is believable. It even has probably happened in real life before. The mind-blowing ....

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