The Comedy of Errors is a classic play in the Aristotle sense.
The play is about bonds and relationships , and as the end imparts , the old values will trump any transient and modish values of the age.To that end the modern setting of contemporary London is apt as it enhances the universal aspects of Humanity that transcends ages and time.Values that are as important to us and they were to Shakespeares time and to times ancient to his contemporaries.
The video below highlights the more slap-stick aspects of the play we all know and love in our time in programmes like "Frasier".
The play stars Lenny Henry , not a miscasting if his past record of familiarity in Shakespearean roles is known.
This review in the Daily Mail gives a fair reflection of how his portrayal impressed many critics.
The Comedy of Errors is a valuable work to know as it comes at an age when feudal society was giving way to industrialisation;commodification;military-blockbuilding ; crippling debt governing life and actions and early capitalism , time this was the biggest challenge to the universal Human Family and Community Bonds.Just like Cormac McCarthys "The Road" investigates , this play tells us Family Values will ultimately trump the destructive mores and morals of capitalism and its attendant monetarist moral values.
The last lines of the play contain its lesson , not much different to the lesson of Timshel contained in Steinbecks "East of Eden",namely "We came into the world like brother and brother; And now let's go hand in hand, not one before another."
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