Introduction.- About the Text.- Key Facts.- The Comedy of Errors.- Textual Notes.- Scene-by-Scene Analysis.- The Comedy of Errors in Performance: The RSC and Beyond.- Four Centuries of The Comedy of Errors: An Overview.- At the RSC.- The Director's Cut: interviews with Paul Hunter, Nancy Meckler and Tim Supple.- Shakespeare's Career in the Theatre.- Shakespeare's Works: A Chronology.- Further Reading and Viewing.- References.- Acknowledgements and Picture Credits
Introduction About the Text Key Facts The Comedy of Errors Textual Notes Scene-by-Scene Analysis The Comedy of Errors in Performance: The RSC and Beyond Four Centuries of The Comedy of Errors: An Overview At the RSC The Director's Cut: interviews with Paul Hunter, Nancy Meckler and Tim Supple Shakespeare's Career in the Theatre Shakespeare's Works: A Chronology Further Reading and Viewing References Acknowledgements and Picture Credits
'A triumphant addition to our times.' - Fiona Shaw, The Times
JONATHAN BATE Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature,
University of Warwick, UK, and the editor of The RSC
Shakespeare: The Complete Works. He has held visiting posts at
Harvard, Yale and UCLA and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of
Literature, a Fellow of the British Academy, an Honorary Fellow of
St Catherine's College, Cambridge, and a Governor and Board member
of the Royal Shakespeare Company. A prominent critic, award-winning
biographer and broadcaster, he is the author of several books on
Shakespeare, including The Genius of Shakespeare
(Picador), which was praised by Sir Peter Hall, founder of the RSC,
as 'the best modern book on Shakespeare.' In June 2006 he was
awarded a CBE by HM The Queen 'for services to Higher
Education'.
ERIC RASMUSSEN Professor of English at the University of Nevada,
USA, and the Textual Editor of The RSC Shakespeare: The
Complete Works. He is co-editor of the Norton Anthology of
English Renaissance Drama and has edited volumes in both the
Arden Shakespeare and Oxford World's Classics
series. He is the General Textual Editor of the Internet
Shakespeare Editions project - one of the most visited
Shakespeare websites in the world. For over nine years he has
written the annual review of editions and textual studies for the
Shakespeare Survey.
'A triumphant addition to our times.' - Fiona Shaw, The Times
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