The Comedy Of Errors Quotes

“I am an ass, indeed; you may prove it by my long 'ears.
I have served him from the hour of my
nativity to this instant, and have nothing at his
hands for my service but blows.
When I am cold heats me with beating; when I am warm he cools me with beating.
I am wak' d with it when I sleep; rais'd with it when I sit; driven out of doors with it when I go from home; welcom'd home with it when I return; nay, I bear it on my shoulders, as a beggar wont her brat; and, I think, when he hath lam'd me, I shall beg with it from door to door.”
― William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

“The Comedy of Errors has been consistently under-appreciated, I’d argue, in part because we don’t know how to appreciate plot. Contemporary culture, the study and performance of Shakespeare, and our own intrinsic narcissism tend to encourage the view that character is destiny. Errors challenges this humanistic view of the world by emphasizing, in ways that anticipate the experience of modernity, the alienation of a mechanical universe. Think Charlie Chaplin on the accelerating assembly line in Modern Times (1936), and you have something of the comic terror captured in The Comedy of Errors.”
― Emma Smith, This Is Shakespeare