Alexander Schmid Podcast

In this inaugural episode of our conversations on the corpus of Shakespeare, Ms. Sarah Miller, Mr. Wes Schantz, and I discussed one of Shakespeare's first works, if not his first work, "The Comedy of Errors". We specifically considered: (a) Shakespeare's time and historical context; drama as a medium, and Shakespeare's audience; (b) from the play, we considered the layers of errors, who was at error (ourselves, even?), and why observing people making errors is funny, and (c) we concluded with questions of identity, social class, and what makes comedy enjoyable in the first place! This is the first episode in a series that aims to bring critical commentary and intelligent conversation (when we can muster it!) to each of Shakespeare's plays, so that no matter how one intends to read Shakespeare, one will always have three fellow interlocutors to join! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/support