The Comedy of Errors

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. Set in the Greek city of Ephesus The Comedy of Errors tells the story of two sets of identical twins who were accidentally separated at birth. Antipholus of Syracuse and his servant Dromio of Syracuse arrive in Ephesus which turns out to be the home of their twin brothers Antipholus of Ephesus and his servant Dromio of Ephesus. When the Syracusans encounter the friends and families of their twins a series of wild mishaps based on mistaken identities lead to wrongful beatings a near-seduction the arrest of Antipholus of Ephesus and false accusations of infidelity theft madness and demonic possession.