Shakespeare, William / 2008-06-27 00:00:00

THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
SOLINUS Duke of Ephesus. (DUKE SOLINUS:)
AEGEON a merchant of Syracuse.
ANTIPHOLUS |
OF EPHESUS |
| twin brothers, and sons to AEgeon and AEmilia.
ANTIPHOLUS |
OF SYRACUSE |
DROMIO OF EPHESUS |
| twin brothers, and attendants on the two Antipholuses.
DROMIO OF SYRACUSE |
BALTHAZAR a merchant
ANGELO a goldsmith.
First Merchant friend to Antipholus of Syracuse.
Second Merchant to whom Angelo is a debtor.
PINCH a schoolmaster.
AEMILIA wife to AEgeon, an abbess at Ephesus.
ADRIANA wife to Antipholus of Ephesus.
LUCIANA her sister.
LUCE servant to Adriana.
A Courtezan.
Gaoler, Officers, and other Attendants
(Gaoler:)
(Officer:)
(Servant:)
SCENE Ephesus.
THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
ACT I
SCENE I A hall in DUKE SOLINUS'S palace.
[Enter DUKE SOLINUS, AEGEON, Gaoler, Officers, and other
Attendants]
AEGEON Proceed, Solinus, to procure my fall
And by the doom of death end woes and all.
DUKE SOLINUS Merchant of Syracuse, plead no more;
I am not partial to infringe our laws:
The enmity and discord which of late
Sprung from the rancorous outrage of your duke
To merchants, our well-dealing countrymen,
Who wanting guilders to redeem their lives
Have seal'd his rigorous statutes with their bloods,
Excludes all pity from our threatening looks.
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