1716 play
Everybody Mistaken is a 1716 comedy play by the British writer William Taverner. The title is also written as Every Body Mistaken.[1] A farce, it is a reworking of The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare.[2]
It premiered at the Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre in London on 10 March 1716, and was followed as an afterpiece by the masque Presumptuous Love, also by Taverner.[3] It opened the same night as Joseph Addison's The Drummer debuted at the rival Drury Lane Theatre.
References
- ^ Burling p.62
- ^ Miola p.29
- ^ Van Lennep p.392
Bibliography
- Burling, William J. A Checklist of New Plays and Entertainments on the London Stage, 1700-1737. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1992.
- Miola, Robert S. The Comedy of Errors: Critical Essays. Routledge, 2013.
- Nicoll, Allardyce. History of English Drama, 1660-1900, Volume 2. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
- Van Lennep, W. The London Stage, 1660-1800: Volume Two, 1700-1729. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960.
