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n. (context idiomatic English) A set of amusing or farcical events involving a series of awkward missteps or other mistakes.
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A comedy of errors is a narrative work (often a 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.
A comedy of errors is a dramatic work in which the action usually features a series of comic instances of mistaken identity.
Comedy of Errors may also refer to:
Theatre- The Comedy of Errors is a play by William Shakespeare
- The Comedy of Errors (1976 musical), adapted by Trevor Nunn
- Comedy Of Errors (band), a Scottish progressive rock band
- Comedy of Errors (horse), a champion British racehorse of the 1970s.
- Comedy of Errors (short story), A short story written by Henryk Sienkiewicz in the last two months of 1877.
Comedy of Errors (1967-1990) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse. He won the Champion Hurdle in 1973 and 1975, becoming one of only two horses to regain British hurdling's top prize ( Hurricane Fly achieved the same feat in the 2013 Champion Hurdle).
Comedy of Errors are a Scottish progressive rock band, often described as being of the neo-progressive rock subgenre, the band themselves would describe the music as also belonging to the symphonic rock subgenre.
Usage examples of "comedy of errors".
The major and I in a comedy of errors both tried to find the latch and let the frantic dog out.
Nor was her first visit to the Old Vic a happy one, for the play was The Comedy of Errors, very cleverly transformed by a young director with his name to make into a mid-Victorian farce, in which the two Antipholuses, in chimney-pot hats and Dundreary whiskers, and the two Dromios, in identical liveries, rushed up and downstairs on a twirly scaffolding which was called Ephesus, until at last they were united with an Aemilia and a Luciana in crinolines and ringlets.
What followed the initial crash would have been only a comedy of errors if so many lives had not been lost as a result of the poor planning.
It was a virtual comedy of errors, an escapade of adventure, and involved two fellows by the names of Mirt and Durnan, and .
Not being a Christian myself, his theological comedy of errors did not poke me in the religious plexus.