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    <body><![CDATA[When I was firt introduced to this play I was waiting for the play to start during the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland. I was excited to finally be able to see a play of Shakespeare's that wasn't all tragedy-- not to say that those plays aren't bad, but a person can only have so much tragedy ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42705011">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I give this 4 stars only because it seems a bit weaker than a similar storyline found in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.  I believe in that case the Great Bard has outdone himself!  It did make me laugh out loud at several points.  Particularly when the servant Bromio is being pursued by the lady who l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39260129">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A fun play with lots of head bludgeoning, witty banter, and delicious word play. Apparently this is one of Shakespeare's earliest plays. The plot is very simple and quite predictable, based on a plot by the Roman playwright Plautus: two sets of twins, separated at birth, then reunited as adults in a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48523678">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Got back from the Shakespeare Festival Sunday. I always try to read the plays before I go see them even if I've read them before.  It makes the play much more enjoyable.  Footnotes in the Arden editions often cover more of the page than the  lines of the text, but I learn that way.  Good read; great...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64747196">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Why do these twins have the same name??  And are they coincidentally wearing the same clothes?  A little too convenient if you ask me ...<br/><br/>Despite it being a self-proclaimed &quot;comedy,&quot; this work is actually doused in gloom, with issues of mistrust and self doubt swimming just belo...]]></body>
    
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