The Comedy of Errors Characters

In The Comedy of Errors, Egeon plays the doting father of the lost twins. The man only appears in the first and final acts, but Egeon is incredibly important as a device to frame the action of the...

Adriana is E. Antipholus’s wife and Luciana’s sister. She spends much of the play worrying that her husband loves another woman. Adriana is most notable for her observations about a wom...

Antipholus of Syracuse is the younger half of a set of long-separated twins. He was raised with his father, Egeon, in Syracuse, and separated from his mother, Aemilia, and brother, Antipholus. S. A...

Antipholus of Ephesus is twin brother to Antipholus of Syracuse, son to Egeon and Aemilia, and generally a man about the town in Ephesus. E. Antipholus is more of a set-piece and plot device than a...

OK, this may seem a little far from Shakespeare, but bear with us for a second; we’re setting something up. If you saw any of the previews over the last couple of years for historical romanti...

Dromio of Syracuse and Dromio of Ephesus are not terribly complex in their thoughts or speeches, but they play a very special role in the play nevertheless. The Dromios are as deeply entangled in t...