The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. For this second edition of The Comedy of Errors, Ros King has revised T. S. Dorsch's renowned text and commentary and written a completely new introduction to the work. She argues that the play cannot be regarded merely as a farcical romp based on a classical model but that it belongs to the critically misunderstood genre of tragi-comedy. Emphasising the seriousness that underlies the text, she pays special attention to the play's religious imagery and at the same time engages fully with its lightness of touch and its continuing popularity in the theatre. The volume also features accounts of recent and historical performances, and an updated reading list.

シェイクスピアの『間違いの喜劇』は、単なる喜劇を超えた「自己の喪失」という深遠なテーマを内包しています。二組の双子が引き起こす混乱は、笑いと共に、個の存在の脆さを突きつけます。宗教的暗喩を孕む詩情と喜劇性が同居する多層的な構造こそ、古典としての真の魅力です。 映像化では身体的な躍動が際立ちますが、原作には文字ならではの「内面的な戸惑い」の深みがあります。言葉の機微を読み解き映像に触れれば、滑稽さと実存的彷徨という両極のシナジーを鮮烈に体感できるはずです。この豊潤な迷宮は、あなたの感性を激しく揺さぶるでしょう。