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The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare was a horrendous and bastardized version of a typical Shakespearean comedy. So many errors of mistaken identity that made the circumstances confused and dispositions ill toward characters that didn't get resolved until the end of the play made it most excruciating to read. It's almost as if Shakespeare had to churn out a play in a short period of time and he took A Midsummer Night's Dream and Much Ado About Nothing, ate them both, and then vomited the result which turned out to be this play. To say the least I didn't enjoy it.

The play is about twin brothers and their twin servants who get constantly mistaken for each other in overly dramatized circumstances that I think are meant to be funny, but just don't pull it off. What gets me so annoyed is that the first brother, Antipholus of Syracuse, is travelling the world searching for his long lost twin brother and even though he is mistaken constantly for his brother and is treated strangely because of it in so many ways, it never occurs to him that it might be because of mistaken identity. He seems like somewhat of an idiot to me. In the end, the payoff of everyone finally finding out what was going on just wasn't enough. It was a short and unimpressive play. But since it is Shakespeare, I've put it under classics. However, Shakespeare has done better.