By Cal
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The story of separated twins (particularly, but not
exclusively, identical twins) has been explored in many ways by many writers.
William Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors has two sets of separated twins
and presents the situation as a farce. Mark Twain’s The Prince and the
Pauper examines class differences (though I don’t think it’s ever confirmed
that the boys are twins, merely that they are identical boys with the same
birthday) and while Willy Russell’s Blood Brothers is full of hilarious
moments, it ends in tragedy (which isn’t a spoiler considering this is revealed
in the first scene). C. S. Lewis’ The Horse and His Boy and Edmund
Spenser’s The Faerie Queene also have storylines based around separated
twins. The storyline has been told in many different ways and I haven’t even
got onto the subject of evil twins.
