Antipholus of Ephesus

Play

The Comedy of Errors

Summary

Antipholus of Ephesus is the resident twin whose established domestic and commercial life is thrown into complete chaos by his double's arrival. Locked out of his own house, denied credit by merchants he has dealt with for years, accused of madness by his wife, and eventually bound and confined as a lunatic, he moves from bewilderment to genuine fury. His experience is the comic inverse of his brother's — where the Syracuse Antipholus is charmed by the uncanny, the Ephesus Antipholus is infuriated by it.

Notable Quotations

"There's not a man I meet but doth salute me / As if I were their well-acquainted friend, / And every one doth call me by my name." *(4.3)*

Cross-references

• The Comedy of Errors — the play
• Comedies
• character_antipholus_of_syracuse — his twin brother
• character_dromio_of_ephesus — his servant
• character_adriana — his wife
• character_egeon — his father