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Making the Twins Realistic in The Comedy of Errors and Twelfth Night

Making the Twins Realistic in The Comedy of Errors and Twelfth Night Making the Twins Realistic in The Carnedy o[ Errars and Twelfth Night Only two of Shakespeare's plays involve characters who are biological twins. The Comedy of Errors has two sets of identical twin brothers: Antipholus of Ephesus and Antipholus of Syracuse, and their servants, Dromio of Ephesus and Dromio ofSyracuse. Twelfth Night contains a pair of opposite-sex twins, Viola and Sebastian. The plots concerning the twins are similar-and almost equally incredible. After the twins are separated by shipwreck, one twin comes by chance to the town where the other has settled. Because the twins happen to look, sound, and be dressed exactly alike, the visiting twin is mistaken for his sibling but never sees hirn or her or realizes he is being mistaken for his twin until they are reunited in the final scene. Despite the blatantly nonrealistic plots ofthese two plays, audiences and reviewers of The Comedy of Errors and Twelfth Night, at least since the Restoration, have demanded a high degree of realism in the stage portrayal of the twins. In response, adapters, directors, and actors have done their best to satisfy this demand. Many techniques have helped to accomplish this feat. Productions have relied especially http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Explorations in Renaissance Culture Brill

Making the Twins Realistic in The Comedy of Errors and Twelfth Night

Explorations in Renaissance Culture , Volume 19 (1): 97 – Dec 2, 1993

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Brill
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© Copyright 1993 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0098-2474
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2352-6963
DOI
10.1163/23526963-90000148
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Abstract

Making the Twins Realistic in The Carnedy o[ Errars and Twelfth Night Only two of Shakespeare's plays involve characters who are biological twins. The Comedy of Errors has two sets of identical twin brothers: Antipholus of Ephesus and Antipholus of Syracuse, and their servants, Dromio of Ephesus and Dromio ofSyracuse. Twelfth Night contains a pair of opposite-sex twins, Viola and Sebastian. The plots concerning the twins are similar-and almost equally incredible. After the twins are separated by shipwreck, one twin comes by chance to the town where the other has settled. Because the twins happen to look, sound, and be dressed exactly alike, the visiting twin is mistaken for his sibling but never sees hirn or her or realizes he is being mistaken for his twin until they are reunited in the final scene. Despite the blatantly nonrealistic plots ofthese two plays, audiences and reviewers of The Comedy of Errors and Twelfth Night, at least since the Restoration, have demanded a high degree of realism in the stage portrayal of the twins. In response, adapters, directors, and actors have done their best to satisfy this demand. Many techniques have helped to accomplish this feat. Productions have relied especially

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Published: Dec 2, 1993

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