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When a play that was written by William Shakespeare is presented to an audience, the audience automatically assumes that the play will have tragic or dramatic connotation. But is there a such thing as a Shakespearean comedy? This question is answered when Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors is read. In this play, Shakespeare cr ....
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.... that ran between France and it" (p.36).
Shakespeare begins using puns to create comedy early on in the play. For example, Shakespeare writes "And he will bless that cross with other beating. Between you I shall have a holy head" (p.16). In this passage Shakespeare is playing on the words bless, cross, and holy. The cross being a symbol of the Christian faith will be struck over someone’s head giving them a holy or "wholly" head. Funny!
There are many examples of puns and situations. But to get the actual feeling for the comedy i ....
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