The Comedy of Errors

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Early farcical comedy of two sets of long-separated
twins careering in bewilderment around Ephesus: confusions abound

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The New Cambridge Shakespeare
The Comedy of Errors
2nd edition
Edited by T. S. Dorsch
Revised by Ros King

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Twins Antipholus of Ephesus (Bruce Nelson) and Antipholus of Syracuse (Darragh Kennan), in the Folger production of The Comedy of Errors, 2011.

Shakespeare, William. The Comedie of Errors. In Mr. William Shakespeares comedies, histories, & tragedies: published according to the true originall copies. London: Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623.

Singleton, Henry, artist. Comedy of Errors, Antipholis: Plead you to me, fair dame? At II, scene II. James Neagle, printmaker. London: Published by Longman & Co., [late 18th or early 19th century.

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Richter, Henry, artist. Comedy of Errors: Two Dromios. 1829.

Wooding, J. G., printmaker. Mrs. Inchbald as Lady abbess [Aemilia] in the 'Comedy of Errors'; Mrs. Wells in the character of Jane Shore. London: Alexander Hogg, 1786.

Rhead, Louis, artist. "The ship split on a mighty rock" from Comedy of Errors [Not after 1918].

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Meadows, Joseph Kenny, artist. Comedy of Errors, Act 4, Scene 3. [mid-nineteenth century]

Meadows, Joseph Kenny, artist. Comedy of Errors, act 4, scene 3. London: Published by Wm. S. Or & Co. [mid-19th century].

Wheatley, Francis, artist. Comedy of Errors, Act 4, Scene 4, Antipholis of Ephesus, Dromio, Courtezan, &c. James Stow, printmaker. London: J & J Boydell, at the Shakespeare Gallery, 1798.

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