Comedy Of Errors
(William Shakespeare)
Based on a Roman Comedy by Plautus, Comedy of Errors is the tale of mistaken identity. More slapstick than most of his comedies, the play centers around two sets of twins and the confusion they make among the citizens of Ephesus. Aegeon, a merchant from Syracuse, dares to come ashore to Ephesus, a city at war with anyone from Syracuse, in search of his lost son. He tells the Duke of Syracuse of his search. Apparently his two twin sons were travelling with their mother and a set of twin slaves on a ship that became wrecked during a terrible storm. Though he found the one son and one of the slaves, the others were lost and he came in search of them, hoping that they may have received shelter in Syracuse. The Duke allows the man one day to find his missing son, but if he does not find him, he will be executed as by decry of the law. Meanwhile his son Antipholus and his servant Dromio arrive from Syracuse only to be immediately confused with their twin brothers of Ephesus who are also called Antipholus and Dromio. Antipholus of Ephesus has agreed to borrow a jewel from the Courtesan who he is friends with and needs for a business deal. Antipholus of Ephesus is married to a jealous woman, Adriana, who often sees the roving eye of her husband and goes to find him. Unfortunately the second set of twins cause a great deal of confusion to the wife and business partners of their twins in Ephesus and the plot becomes more complicated when Antipholus of Syracuse falls in love with Adriana?s sister, Luciana. Eventually, however, like all comic plots, this one is untangled and Aegeon not only finds his long lost son and servant, but also his lost wife and his life is spared.
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