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The Comedy of Errors

Shakespeare and Folktales
Shakespeare Unlimited

Shakespeare and Folktales

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Shakespeare Unlimited: Episode 138 You probably know where Shakespeare got the ideas for his plays. His Histories come from Holinshed’s Chronicles. Caesar and other Roman plays depend on Plutarch’s Lives. The Comedy of Errors is based on Plautus’s Menaechmi. But what…

Excerpt -- 'Thanks a Lot Mr. Kibblewhite' by Roger Daltrey
Roger Daltrey, Thanks a Lot Mr. Kibblewhite (2018). Book cover.
Shakespeare and Beyond

Excerpt -- 'Thanks a Lot Mr. Kibblewhite' by Roger Daltrey

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In his recent memoir, “Thanks a Lot Mr. Kibblewhite,” Roger Daltrey of The Who writes, among other things, about playing the Dromio twins in the BBC’s TV movie of “The Comedy of Errors” (1983).