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The Comedy of Errors was first published in the First Folio collected edition of Shakespeare's plays in 1623 (seven years after Shakespeare died). There are good reasons to believe that it was already an old play by then, and most critics assume it was written before 1595.

Shakespeare wrote his plays for performance, not for publication, and few were published during his lifetime. It was only Shakespeare's younger friend Ben Jonson who popularised the idea of publishing plays, and selling them as books.

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