Book description
Two sets of identical twins, separated at sea as children, find
themselves in the same city for the first time as adults. Soon, their
friends mistake the twins for one another and bewilderment abounds, as
the wife of one man declares the other to be her husband, pronouncing
him mad when he denies the claim. Exuberant, complex and brilliantly
farcical, this is a hilarious comedy of confusion and ultimate reunion.
William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright of the 16th
and 17 centuries, now widely regarded as the greatest writer in the
English language and the word's pre-eminent dramatist.
Randall Martin is Professor of English at the University of New
Brunswick. He has edited Henry VI Part Three for The Oxford
Shakespeare and Oxford World's Classics, and The Merchant of Venice,
with a theatre commentary by Peter Lichtenfels, for Applause Theatre
Books. He is currently writing a book about early modern English
murder news, and completing an edition of Ben Jonson's Every Man Out
of His Humour for the forthcoming Cambridge Edition of the Works of
Ben Jonson.
Randall Martin is Professor of English at the University of New
Brunswick. He has edited Henry VI Part Three for The Oxford
Shakespeare and Oxford World's Classics, and The Merchant of Venice,
with a theatre commentary by Peter Lichtenfels, for Applause Theatre
Books. He is currently writing a book about early modern English
murder news, and completing an edition of Ben Jonson's Every Man Out
of His Humour for the forthcoming Cambridge Edition of the Works of
Ben Jonson.
