THE COMEDY OF ERRORS. William Shakespeare

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      William Shakespeare

      THE COMEDY OF ERRORS

      Including The Life of William Shakespeare

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Table of Contents

       The Comedy of Errors

       PERSONS REPRESENTED.

       ACT I.

       ACT II.

       ACT III.

       ACT IV.

       ACT V.

       The Life of William Shakespeare

       PREFACE

       I—PARENTAGE AND BIRTH

       II—CHILDHOOD, EDUCATION, AND MARRIAGE

       III—THE FAREWELL TO STRATFORD

       IV—ON THE LONDON STAGE

       V.—EARLY DRAMATIC EFFORTS

       VI—THE FIRST APPEAL TO THE READING PUBLIC

       VII—THE SONNETS AND THEIR LITERARY HISTORY

       VIII—THE BORROWED CONCEITS OF THE SONNETS

       IX—THE PATRONAGE OF THE EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON

       X—THE SUPPOSED STORY OF INTRIGUE IN THE SONNETS

       XI—THE DEVELOPMENT OF DRAMATIC POWER

       XII—THE PRACTICAL AFFAIRS OF LIFE

       XIII—MATURITY OF GENIUS

       XIV—THE HIGHEST THEMES OF TRAGEDY

       XV—THE LATEST PLAYS

       XVI—THE CLOSE OF LIFE

       XVII—SURVIVORS AND DESCENDANTS

       XVIII—AUTOGRAPHS, PORTRAITS, AND MEMORIALS

       XIX—BIBLIOGRAPHY

       XX—POSTHUMOUS REPUTATION

       XXI—GENERAL ESTIMATE

       APPENDIX

      The Comedy of Errors

      PERSONS REPRESENTED.

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       SOLINUS, Duke of Ephesus.

       AEGEON, a Merchant of Syracuse.

       ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS, Twin brothers and sons to Aegion and

       ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE, and Aemelia, but unknown to each other.

       DROMIO OF EPHESUS, Twin brothers, and attendants on

       DROMIO OF SYRACUSE, the two Antipholuses.

       BALTHAZAR, a Merchant.

       ANGELO, a Goldsmith.

       A MERCHANT, friend to Antipholus of Syracuse.

       PINCH, a Schoolmaster and a Conjurer.

       AEMILIA, Wife to Aegeon, an Abbess at Ephesus.

       ADRIANA, Wife to Antipholus of Ephesus.

       LUCIANA, her Sister.

       LUCE, her Servant.

       A COURTEZAN

       Gaoler, Officers, Attendants

       SCENE: Ephesus

ACT I.

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      SCENE 1. A hall in the DUKE’S palace.

       [Enter the DUKE, AEGEON, GAOLER, OFFICERS, and other ATTENDANTS.]

       AEGEON.

       Proceed, Solinus, to procure my fall,

       And, by the doom of death, end woes and all.

       DUKE.

       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 threat’ning looks.

       For, since the mortal and intestine jars

       ‘Twixt thy seditious