Misplaced Pages

Everybody Mistaken is a 1716 comedy play by the British writer William Taverner. The title is also written as Every Body Mistaken. A farce, it is a reworking of The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare.

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. It opened the same night as Joseph Addison's The Drummer debuted at the rival Drury Lane Theatre.

References

1. Burling p.62
2. Miola p.29
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.

This article on a play from the 1710s is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

• 1716 plays
• West End plays
• Plays by William Taverner
• Comedy plays
• Plays and musicals based on The Comedy of Errors
• 18th-century play stubs