Comedy of Errors

Characters

The twin Dromios in a Carmel Shakespeare Festival production, Forest Theater, Carmel, California, 2008
  • Solinus – Duke of Ephesus
  • Egeon – A merchant of Syracuse – father of the Antipholus twins
  • Emilia – Antipholus' lost mother – wife to Egeon
  • 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 – Adriana's sister, love interest of Antipholus of Syracuse
  • Nell – kitchen wench/maid to Adriana, Wife of Dromio of Ephesus
  • Luce - a witty and vivacious servant in the household of Antipholus of Syracuse
  • 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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