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The Comedy of Errors. Poster for an 1879 production on Broadway, featuring Stuart Robson and William H. Crane. The Comedy of Errors is one of William Shakespeare 's early plays. It is his shortest and one of his most farcical comedies, with a major part of the humour coming from slapstick and mistaken identity, in addition to puns and word play.
Oct 4, 2017 · Set in the city of Ephesus, The Comedy of Errors concerns the farcical misadventures of two sets of identical twins. Many years earlier, the Syracusan merchant Egeon had twin sons, both named Antipholus. At their birth, he bought another pair of newborn twins, both named Dromio, as their servants. In a shipwreck, Egeon lost his wife, one of his ...
The Comedy of Errors Full Book Summary. Egeon, a merchant of Syracuse, is condemned to death in Ephesus for violating the ban against travel between the two rival cities. As he is led to his execution, he tells the Ephesian Duke, Solinus, that he has come to Syracuse in search of his wife and one of his twin sons, who were separated from him 25 ...
Feb 18, 2020 · Introduction to the play. Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors is the slapstick farce of his youth. In it, the lost twin sons of the old merchant Egeon—both named Antipholus—find themselves in Ephesus, without either one even knowing of the other’s existence. Meanwhile, Egeon has arrived in search of the son he thinks is still alive—and ...
- SCENE I. A hall in DUKE SOLINUS'S palace. Enter DUKE SOLINUS, AEGEON, Gaoler, Officers, and other Attendants. AEGEON. Proceed, Solinus, to procure my fall.
- SCENE I. The house of ANTIPHOLUS of Ephesus. Enter ADRIANA and LUCIANA. ADRIANA. Neither my husband nor the slave return'd, That in such haste I sent to seek his master!
- SCENE I. Before the house of ANTIPHOLUS of Ephesus. Enter ANTIPHOLUS of Ephesus, DROMIO of Ephesus, ANGELO, and BALTHAZAR. ANTIPHOLUS. OF EPHESUS. Good Signior Angelo, you must excuse us all;
- SCENE I. A public place. Enter Second Merchant, ANGELO, and an Officer. Second Merchant. You know since Pentecost the sum is due, And since I have not much importuned you;
The Comedy of Errors, five-act comedy by William Shakespeare, written in 1589–94 and first published in the First Folio of 1623 from Shakespeare’s manuscript. It was based on Menaechmi by Plautus, with additional material from Plautus’s Amphitruo and the story of Apollonius of Tyre.
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The Comedy of Errors Summary. After both being separated from their twins in a shipwreck, Antipholus and his slave Dromio go to Ephesus to find them. The other set of twins lives in Ephesus, and the new arrivals cause a series of incidents of mistaken identity. At the end, the twins find each other and their parents and resolve all of the ...
