The Comedy of Errors - Characters

Characters

  • Solinus – Duke of Ephesus
  • Egeon (or Ægeon) – a merchant of Syracuse
  • Emilia (or Æmilia) – his lost wife, now Lady Abbess at Ephesus
  • Antipholus of Ephesus and Antipholus of Syracuse – twin brothers, sons of Egeon and Emilia
  • Dromio of Ephesus and Dromio of Syracuse – twin brothers, bondmen, each serving his respective Antipholus
  • Adriana – wife of Antipholus of Ephesus
  • Luciana – her sister
  • Luce – maid to Adriana
  • Balthazar – a merchant
  • Angelo – a goldsmith
  • Courtesan
  • First merchant – friend to Antipholus of Syracuse
  • Second merchant – to whom Angelo is in debt
  • Doctor Pinch – a conjuring schoolmaster
  • Gaoler, Headsman, Officers, and other Attendants

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