SOLINUS – Duke of Ephesus
AEGEON – a merchant of Syracuse
ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS, ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE – twin brothers, and sons to AEGEON and AEMILIA, but unknown to each other
DROMIO OF EPHESUS, DROMIO OF SYRACUSE – twin brothers, and attendants on 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 merchant – friend to ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
PLAY
Ephesus.
ACT I
Scene i: A hall in the Duke’s palace.
Scene ii: A public place.
ACT II
Scene i: A public place.
Scene ii: The same.
ACT III
Scene i: The same.
Scene ii: The same.
ACT IV
Scene i: The same.
Scene ii: The same.
Scene iii: The same.
Scene iv: The same.
ACT V
Scene i: The same.
Act III: Scene ii
ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE: There’s none but witches do inhabit here;
And therefore ’tis high time that I were hence.
She that doth call me husband, even my soul
Doth for a wife abhor; but her fair sister,
Possess’d with such a gentle sovereign grace,
Of such enchanting presence and discourse,
Hath almost made me traitor to myself:
But, lest myself be guilty to self-wrong,
I’ll stop mine ears against the mermaid’s song.
