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Chapter 6: DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.1
By William Shakespeare
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A fast-moving comedy of mistaken identity centers on two sets of identical twins separated in childhood whose unexpected overlap in a busy port city provokes escalating confusion. Repeated misrecognitions between masters and their lookalike servants produce wrongful arrests, disrupted households, commercial quarrels, and mounting farce. A distressed parent facing legal peril and a mysterious religious figure increase the emotional tension beneath the humor. Through a sequence of comic confrontations, legal encounters, and finally recognition, the tangled misunderstandings are unraveled and family relationships are restored.

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Title: The Comedy of Errors

Author: William Shakespeare

Editor: William George Clark

Cambridge librarian of Trinity College John Glover

Release date: December 30, 2007 [eBook #23046]
Most recently updated: September 27, 2025

Language: English

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THE WORKS

OF

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

EDITED BY

WILLIAM GEORGE CLARK, M.A.

FELLOW AND TUTOR OF TRINITY COLLEGE, AND PUBLIC ORATOR
IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE;

and JOHN GLOVER, M.A.

LIBRARIAN OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.
 
VOLUME I.
 
Cambridge and London:
MACMILLAN AND CO.
1863.
Dramatis Personæ
 
Act I		  
Scene 1		  
A hall in the Duke’s palace.
Scene 2 The Mart.
Act II Scene 1 The house of Antipholus of Ephesus.
Scene 2 A public place.
Act III Scene 1 Before the house of Antipholus of Ephesus.
Scene 2 The same.
Act IV Scene 1 A public place.
Scene 2 The house of Antipholus of Ephesus.
Scene 3 A public place.
Scene 4 A street.
Act V Scene 1 A street before a Priory.
 
Endnotes

Critical Apparatus (“Linenotes”)

Texts Used (from general preface)

THE COMEDY OF ERRORS.

DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.1

Solinus2, duke of Ephesus.

Ægeon, a merchant of Syracuse.

Antipholus3 of Ephesus

twin brothers, and sons to Ægeon and Æmilia.
Antipholus of Syracuse,
Dromio of Ephesus

twin brothers, and attendants on the two Antipholuses.
Dromio of Syracuse,

Balthazar, a merchant.

Angelo, a goldsmith.

First Merchant, friend to Antipholus of Syracuse.

Second Merchant, to whom Angelo is a debtor.

Pinch, a schoolmaster.

 

Æmilia, wife to Ægeon, an abbess at Ephesus.

Adriana, wife to Antipholus of Ephesus.

Luciana, her sister.

Luce, servant to Adriana.

A Courtezan.

 

Gaoler, Officers, and other Attendants.

Scene—Ephesus.

1. Dramatis Personæ first given by Rowe.

2. Solinus] See note (I).

3. Antipholus] See note (I).