Comedy Of Errors

- the shortest Shakespeare play by number of lines (1777)This play involves the separation, then reunion, of Egeon and Emelia (husband and wife); their twin sons, Antipholus of Ephesus (A.E.) and Antipholus of Syracuse (A.S.); and their twin servants, Dromio of Ephesus (D.E.) and Dromio of Syracuse (D.S.). The family is separated at sea during a storm, 33 years before the present. Egeon, Antipholus, and Syracuse survive together and grow up in Syracuse. …

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