Mojo, The Bard, & Me

 

Dined at home!—Thou villain, what sayest thou?

-Antipholus of Ephesus

The Comedy of Errors               Act IV, Scene IV, Line 68

 

This is taking place shortly after the two Ephesus guys were denied entrance to their own house (see 4/21 post), and now they meet up with A of E’s wife who’s telling him that he just had dinner with her (it was A of S who had dinner with her). So, in one sense, it’s pretty understandable that he’s going to be upset with his wife’s claim. In another sense, you would really think that by this point someone would have figured out what’s going on here. But wait, this is a comedy and we’re purposely asked to suspend our credulity. Right. Got it. Credulity suspended (see 4/27 post re credulity).

 

Here's some artwork from my nephew Will. He's the son of my illustrator Bill. Since we're talking about Comedy of Errors today, I should note the I've been trying to get going on a retelling of this one with Will as the illustrator. Obviously the kid's got talent. Now I just need to get going on the book!