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Everybody Mistaken

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]

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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

  1. [1]
    Burling p.62
  2. [2]
    Miola p.29
  3. [3]
    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.


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