TY  - GEN
AB  - The premise of William Shakespeare’s &lt;em&gt;The Comedy of Errors&lt;/em&gt; can be described in a single far-fetched sentence: Two sets of identically dressed twins, identically named and even identically freckled, somehow wander around the same town without noticing each other. Mistaken identities such as these are common in the major forebears of Shakespeare’s comedy—in Roman New Comedy (especially the works of Plautus) and the Italian &lt;em&gt;commedia dell arte&lt;/em&gt; of the sixteenth century—but a key difference is that deception in classical comedy often relied on trickster figures, while the two sets of twins in &lt;em&gt;Errors&lt;/em&gt; are accidental deceivers, tricky only because they are a physical paradox. The twins themselves attribute the confusion surrounding them to physical locations: the magical Mediterranean and the ancient and occult town of Ephesus. In this paper, I make a similar argument, attributing the confusion of &lt;em&gt;Errors&lt;/em&gt; not to trickster figures but to “trickster geographies.” The trickery that drives the play’s plotline emanates from the places the twins inhabit, and Shakespeare characterizes these settings—in particular, the Mediterranean Sea and the city of Ephesus—as magical, liminal, and beguiling.
AD  - University of Southern Indiana
AU  - Monica O'Neil
DA  - 2023
DO  - 10.58090/usi.1460399
DO  - doi
ID  - 1460399
JF  - Indiana English
L1  - https://library.usi.edu/record/1460399/files/SOAR%20Author%20Agreement%20%28M.%20O%27Neil%29%20.pdf
L1  - https://library.usi.edu/record/1460399/files/%28O%27Neil%29%20The%20City%20and%20the%20Sea%20Trickster%20Geographies%20in%20Shakespear%27s%20Comedy%20of%20Errors.pdf
L2  - https://library.usi.edu/record/1460399/files/SOAR%20Author%20Agreement%20%28M.%20O%27Neil%29%20.pdf
L2  - https://library.usi.edu/record/1460399/files/%28O%27Neil%29%20The%20City%20and%20the%20Sea%20Trickster%20Geographies%20in%20Shakespear%27s%20Comedy%20of%20Errors.pdf
L4  - https://library.usi.edu/record/1460399/files/SOAR%20Author%20Agreement%20%28M.%20O%27Neil%29%20.pdf
L4  - https://library.usi.edu/record/1460399/files/%28O%27Neil%29%20The%20City%20and%20the%20Sea%20Trickster%20Geographies%20in%20Shakespear%27s%20Comedy%20of%20Errors.pdf
LA  - eng
LK  - https://library.usi.edu/record/1460399/files/SOAR%20Author%20Agreement%20%28M.%20O%27Neil%29%20.pdf
LK  - https://library.usi.edu/record/1460399/files/%28O%27Neil%29%20The%20City%20and%20the%20Sea%20Trickster%20Geographies%20in%20Shakespear%27s%20Comedy%20of%20Errors.pdf
N2  - The premise of William Shakespeare’s &lt;em&gt;The Comedy of Errors&lt;/em&gt; can be described in a single far-fetched sentence: Two sets of identically dressed twins, identically named and even identically freckled, somehow wander around the same town without noticing each other. Mistaken identities such as these are common in the major forebears of Shakespeare’s comedy—in Roman New Comedy (especially the works of Plautus) and the Italian &lt;em&gt;commedia dell arte&lt;/em&gt; of the sixteenth century—but a key difference is that deception in classical comedy often relied on trickster figures, while the two sets of twins in &lt;em&gt;Errors&lt;/em&gt; are accidental deceivers, tricky only because they are a physical paradox. The twins themselves attribute the confusion surrounding them to physical locations: the magical Mediterranean and the ancient and occult town of Ephesus. In this paper, I make a similar argument, attributing the confusion of &lt;em&gt;Errors&lt;/em&gt; not to trickster figures but to “trickster geographies.” The trickery that drives the play’s plotline emanates from the places the twins inhabit, and Shakespeare characterizes these settings—in particular, the Mediterranean Sea and the city of Ephesus—as magical, liminal, and beguiling.
PB  - Indiana College English Association
PY  - 2023
T1  - The City and the Sea: Trickster Geographies in Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors
TI  - The City and the Sea: Trickster Geographies in Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors
UR  - https://library.usi.edu/record/1460399/files/SOAR%20Author%20Agreement%20%28M.%20O%27Neil%29%20.pdf
UR  - https://library.usi.edu/record/1460399/files/%28O%27Neil%29%20The%20City%20and%20the%20Sea%20Trickster%20Geographies%20in%20Shakespear%27s%20Comedy%20of%20Errors.pdf
Y1  - 2023
ER  -