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Characters
- Solinus, the 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, kitchen-maid to Adriana, also referred to as Nell ("a mountain of mad flesh that claims marriage of me" -- Dromio of Syracuse)
- Balthazar, a merchant
- Angelo, a goldsmith
- Courtesan
- First merchant of Ephesus, friend to Antipholus of Syracuse
- Second merchant of Ephesus, to whom Angelo is in debt
- Doctor Pinch, a conjuring schoolmaster
- Gaoler, Headsman, Officers, and other Attendants
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