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Biography
Other usesA comedy of errors is a narrative work (often a Play (theatre)|play ) that is light and often humorous or satirical in tone, in which the action usually features a series of comic instances of mistaken identity, and which typically culminates in a happy resolution of the thematic conflict. http://books.google.com/books? id=ZvSPZgvSPFgC& pg=PA154& dq=Comedy+of+errors+definition& lr=& as_brr=3& ei=vscvS4fWG5fsygTf0NHUBA& cd=4#v=onepage& q=Comedy%20of%20errors%20definition& f=false "Meaning in Comedy: Studies in Elizabethan Romantic Comedy" by John Weld, SUNY Press, 1975, ISBN 0-87395-278-2, ISBN 978-0-87395-278-1, pgs 154-55 http://books.google.com/books? id=TiMNAQAAIAAJ& pg=PA13& dq=Comedy+of+errors+definition+terminology& lr=& as_brr=3& ei=DcovS4CUF5q4yASgk9GsBA& cd=2#v=onepage& q=Comedy%20of%20errors%20definition%20terminology& f=false "Tragedy and tragicomedy in the plays of John Webster" by Jacqueline Pearson, Manchester University Press ND, 1980, ISBN 0-7190-0786-0, ISBN 978-0-7190-0786-6, pg 13
Satire and farce
A slight variation of the "comedy of errors" discipline is farce|farcical theatre, which revolves around humour caused by the foolish mistakes of unintelligent characters and the chaos that derives from it. Examples of farces include British sitcom s Fawlty Towers and Men Behaving Badly .
In Shakespeare
William Shakespeare wrote a play entitled The Comedy of Errors .
'' A Midsummer Night's Dream is another well-known Shakespearean example of a comedy of errors.
On television
Many modern television situation comedy|situation comedies use comedy of errors as a standard plot device, often in every episode. '' Three's Company is considered a classic example of such a sitcom.
Many episodes of the American sitcom Frasier exemplify the qualities of this sort of comedy.
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