Both Uses of
theme
in
The Comedy of Errors
- To me she speaks; she moves me for her theme: What, was I married to her in my dream?†
Scene 2.2 *
- In bed, he slept not for my urging it; At board, he fed not for my urging it; Alone, it was the subject of my theme; In company, I often glanced it; Still did I tell him it was vile and bad.†
Scene 5.1
Definition:
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(theme as in: theme of the novel) a basic idea that underlies what is being said or done -- especially in a literary or artistic work