Individual post by Rochelle
Last year we focused a lot on a shakespearian play 'Comedy Of Errors' this play's main theme was Mistaken Identity and we went to see a live performance of it and it had a lot of humour incorporated into it. This play i think is a very good piece of Initial Material we can use to help add chaos and focus a lot on the loss of a persons identity. A little bit of information.
Right a quick summary - two twins separated at birth, don't know they're twins. One is rich (Antipholus of Ephesus) with a servant (Dromio of Ephesus) and one (Antipholus of Syracuse) is working class with a servant. ( Dromio of Ephesus) As you can guess they both get mixed up in each other's lives, the poor one breaking off his brothers marriage, messing up money issues , there is even mix ups with the servants as they all have been given the same first names. Originally there weren't the two servants but they were added for humour for an Elizabethan Audience. After watching Comedy of Errors I think it's an excellent piece to use as stimulus for our mistaken Identity Piece and see where it takes us!
Here is a link to a spark notes website with all the info on the play if you'd like to read some of it or look at themes or notes and stuff!
http://m.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/errors/summary.html
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