TY  - GEN
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.
DO  - 10.58090/usi.1460399
DO  - doi
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
T1  - The City and the Sea: Trickster Geographies in Shakespeare’s &lt;em&gt;Comedy of Errors&lt;/em&gt;
DA  - 2023
AU  - Monica O'Neil
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
JF  - Indiana English
PB  - Indiana College English Association
LA  - eng
PY  - 2023
ID  - 1460399
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
TI  - The City and the Sea: Trickster Geographies in Shakespeare’s &lt;em&gt;Comedy of Errors&lt;/em&gt;
Y1  - 2023
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
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
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
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