I've now read the first of Shakespeare's comedies. Surprise number one: It's genuinely funny. The plot is about as contrived as something can be, but the humour is more tangential. One thing suffers: puns don't last 400 years.
This one would not be part of the Space Opera continuity.
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I don't know about the pun comment... After all, the scene in which Dromio of Syracuse is explaining about the kitchen wench to Antipholus of Syracuse is pretty laugh-out-loud funny.
That is one of the things I was thinking of as genuinely funny. I hadn't considered them puns, but they are, of course. I laughed pretty loud at those too.
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