Comedy Of Errors Essay

The Comedy of Errors
In William Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors a question that is raised throughout the whole play is weather the play is considered farce or romance. Which brings up another question for me in what ways can a reader be deeply impacted by the use of farce and romance. While in Shakespearean times farce was comical and used a lot of physical contact, usually viewer friendly romance mostly revolved around tragedy and families reuniting. Throughout the play both farce the genre and romance the theme are used from the beating of the fromios to the family reuniting. The reader can be impacted in many ways ranging from his point of view throughout the whole play, weather he should take it as a serious play or shift more towards the side of the comical genre of the play, it could also change the way the final rating of the play as the …show more content…
Throughout the large portion of the play the central genre is dominated by farce. Farce mostly revolves around physical contact and is usually viewer friendly to the audience as we sometimes here the characters soliloquies when the scene come to a complete stop and we can here the characters thoughts and feelings. This is obvious as the funniest points in the play is the mass confusion in between the set of the the Dromios and Antiphili “/ Now, as I am a Christian, answer me/ In what safe place you have bestowed my money,/ Or I shall break that merry sconce of yours/” this is the confusion to each other typically ending in the beating of the Dromios usually being called a “Villain” by their master confusing them with one another. At this point the reader knows what is going on and affects his view of the play as he sees the confusion unroll upon his eyes. The reader is now viewing the comedic side if the play and as is I did completely forgets about the darker part or the fact that Aegon can