{{Short description|1716 play}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox play | name = Everybody Mistaken | image = | image_size = | caption = | writer = William Taverner | setting = | date of premiere = 10 March 1716 | original language = English | place = Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre | series = | subject = | genre = Comedy }} '''''Everybody Mistaken''''' is a 1716 comedy play by the British writer William Taverner. The title is also written as '''''Every Body Mistaken'''''.<ref>Burling p.62</ref> A farce, it is a reworking of ''The Comedy of Errors'' by William Shakespeare.<ref>Miola p.29</ref>
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.<ref>Van Lennep p.392</ref> It opened the same night as Joseph Addison's ''The Drummer'' debuted at the rival Drury Lane Theatre.
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==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.
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