...that Shakespeare " has in this piece presented us with a legitimate farce in exoctest consonance witli the philosophical principles and character of farce,...distinguished from comedy and from entertainments. ... A comedy would scarcely allow even the two Antipholnses ; because, although there have been instances...

...throughout. Lit. Rem. II. 122. Comedy of Errors. The myriad-minded man, our, and all men's, Shakespeare, has in this piece presented us with a legitimate farce...proper farce is mainly distinguished from comedy by the licence allowed, and even required, in the fable, in order to produce strange and laughable situations....

...taken by one who had "small Latin." The Comedy of Errors is thus disposed of by Coleridge: "Shakespeare has in this piece presented us with a legitimate farce...The story need not be probable, it is enough that it be possible. A comedy would scarcely allow even the two Antipholuses; because, although there have...

...1817, Shakspeare and His Times, vol.. n, p. 288. The myriad-minded man, our, and all men's, Shakspere, has in this piece presented us with a legitimate farce...distinguished from comedy and from entertainments. — COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR, 1818, Lectures and Notes on Shakspere, id. Ashe, p. 292. Until I saw...

...Coleridge, who said : " Shakespeare has in this piece presented us with a legitimate farce in exaftest consonance with the philosophical principles and character...distinguished from comedy and from entertainments." Shakespeare's source, the Menoechmi of Plautus, — " a farce of mistaken identity " he surely intended...

...Olyve. The comedy was first printed in the folio of 1623. ST Coleridge wrote of it that Shakespeare " has in this piece presented us with a legitimate farce...distinguished from comedy and from entertainments. ... A comedy would scarcely allow even the two Antipholuses ; because, although there have been instances...

...VOICES A Poetical Farce Samuel Taylor Coleridge The myriad-minded man, our, and all men's, Shakespeare, has in this piece presented us with a legitimate farce...character of farce, as distinguished from comedy and from other entertainments. A proper farce is mainly distinguished from comedy by the license allowed, and...

...designated as farce by such critics as Coleridge and Prof. Dowden, properly so considered ? Shakespeare " has in this piece presented us with a legitimate farce...character of farce, as distinguished from comedy." (Coleridge.) Objection to this view. It must hold, however, in the main. DATE OF THE PLAY.* Determined...