Dromio of Ephesus

Play

The Comedy of Errors

Summary

Dromio of Ephesus is the resident servant twin, whose comic role is largely one of bewildered suffering: he is sent on errands he doesn't remember receiving, locked out of his master's house, beaten for errands he never ran, and generally treated as the victim of a conspiracy he cannot understand. His bewilderment is more purely physical and reactive than his brother's verbal agility, and the accumulation of his beatings from both Antipholuses drives much of the play's farcical energy.

Notable Quotations

"I am an ass, I am a woman's man, and besides myself." *(3.1)*

Cross-references

• The Comedy of Errors — the play
• Comedies
• character_antipholus_of_ephesus — his master
• character_dromio_of_syracuse — his twin
• character_adriana — his master's wife