The Comedy of Errors | The Comedy of Errors

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Author: William Shakespeare
First Published: 1623
Type of Work: Drama
Type of Plot: Farce
Time of Work: First century
Setting: Greece
Principal Characters: Solinus, Aegeon, Antipholus of Ephesus, Antipholus of Syracuse, Dromio of Ephesus, Dromio of Syracuse, Aemilia, Adriana, Luciana, A Courtesan
Genres: Drama, Farce, Comedy
Subjects: Mistaken or secret identity, Servants, Greek or Roman times, Twins or multiple-birth siblings, Greece or Greek people
Locales: Greece, ancient

The Story:

According to the laws of the lands of Ephesus and Syracuse, it was forbidden for a native of one land to journey to the other; the penalty for the crime was execution or the ransom of a thousand marks. Aegeon, a merchant of Syracuse who had recently traveled to Ephesus, was to be put to death because he could not raise the thousand marks. When Solinus, duke of Ephesus, heard Aegeon’s story, he gave the merchant one more day to raise the money.

It was a sad and strange tale Aegeon told. He had, many years earlier, journeyed to Epidamnum. Shortly after his...

The Comedy of Errors | The Comedy of Errors

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