9/3/22
It
is the devil.
-Antipholus of Syracuse
The Comedy of Errors Act IV, scene iii, line 49
This play is a
little bit crazy; okay, maybe a lot crazy. I think the main problem, well, to be
clear there are a lot of problems and a lot of common sense that must be
suspended in order to deal with this play. But as I was saying, one of the
biggest of these is that Antipholus and Dromio of Syracuse are out in search of
their twins, and they arrive in a town where they are constantly being mistaken
for someone else. Why don’t they realize that their twins are in this town! Oy!
I mean honestly, this one plot fault could have been overcome by having these
two guys traveling without the express purpose of looking for their twins; or
perhaps not even knowing they have twins. We, the audience, would have known
about the twin situation from Aegeon’s story in the first scene of the play.
Okay, there I go
questioning Will again. When will I learn? Perhap’s it’s the devil in me. Yes,
that’s it. It is the devil.
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