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  2. The Comedy of Errors - Wikipedia

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    Every Body Mistaken is a 1716 "revival" and directorial adaptation of Shakespeare's play by an anonymous author. [9] See If You Like It; or, 'Tis All a Mistake, an anonymous adaptation staged in 1734 at Covent Garden, performed in two acts with text from Plautus and Shakespeare. Shakespeare purists considered it to be the "worst alteration ...

  3. Shakespearean comedy - Wikipedia

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    The Duel Scene from 'Twelfth Night' by William Shakespeare, William Powell Frith (1842). In the First Folio, the plays of William Shakespeare were grouped into three categories: comedies, histories, and tragedies; [1] and modern scholars recognise a fourth category, romance, to describe the specific types of comedy that appear in Shakespeare's later works.

  4. Twelfth Night - Wikipedia

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    Scene from 'Twelfth Night' ('Malvolio and the Countess'), Daniel Maclise (1840) Twelfth Night, or What You Will is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1601–1602 as a Twelfth Night entertainment for the close of the Christmas season.

  5. As You Like It - Wikipedia

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    As You Like It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 and first published in the First Folio in 1623. The play's first performance is uncertain, though a performance at Wilton House in 1603 (the house having been a focus for literary activity under Mary Sidney for much of the later 16th century) has been suggested as a possibility.

  6. All the Shakespeare References You May Have Missed in ... - AOL

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    Loosely based on William Shakespeare’s comedy Much Ado About Nothing, Anyone But You is chock-full of references to its source material that could be easily overlooked by the casual viewer.

  7. Touchstone (As You Like It) - Wikipedia

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    Touchstone is a fictional character in Shakespeare's play As You Like It. He is a court Jester, he was used throughout the play to both provide comic relief through sometimes vulgar humor and contrarily share wisdom, [1] fitting the archetype of the Shakespearean fool. Oftentimes, he acts as a character who foils his surroundings, observing and ...

  8. 100 loyalty quotes by everyone from Shakespeare to ... - AOL

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    As William Shakespeare famously said, “This above all: to thine own self be true.” ... Ahead, this curated collection includes loyalty quotes for friendship (with some funny ones thrown in the ...

  9. Much Ado About Nothing - Wikipedia

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    Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy by William Shakespeare thought to have been written in 1598 and 1599. [1] The play was included in the First Folio , published in 1623. The play is set in Messina and revolves around two romantic pairings that emerge when a group of soldiers arrive in the town.