Dan Levy's Big Mistakes drops two hapless siblings into an escalating crime spiral they are hilariously unequipped to handle - and Shakespeare got there first. If you're following Schitt's Creek Creator New Comedy, this book carries related themes and emotional stakes in a distinct story.

The Comedy of Errors is built on the same comic engine: ordinary people swept into chaos not by criminal ambition but by accident, mistaken identity, and the stubborn gravitational pull of family.

Two sets of identical twins, separated at birth, converge in the same city on the same day, and every encounter compounds the confusion.

Servants are beaten for obeying the wrong master, a wife locks her husband out of his own house while dining with his double, and an arrest warrant tightens the screws on characters who have no idea what they've done wrong.

The mishaps stack with the relentless pace of a caper plot - each scene raises the absurdity because no one possesses enough information to stop the spiral.