Everybody Mistaken | |
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Written by | William Taverner |
Date premiered | 10 March 1716 |
Place premiered | Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre |
Original language | English |
Genre | Comedy |
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.