Luciana

Play

The Comedy of Errors

Summary

Luciana is Adriana's sister, who counsels her to endure a husband's straying with patience, arguing for a natural order of male precedence — a position somewhat undercut when Antipholus of Syracuse (mistaking her for an available woman) begins wooing her ardently. Her response to his declarations is flustered alarm rather than the philosophical detachment she preaches to Adriana. She becomes the object of the Syracuse Antipholus's genuine love, and the play's resolution promises their future match.

Notable Quotations

"There's none but asses will be bridled so." *(2.1)*

"Lay open to my earthy-gross conceit, / Smothered in errors, feeble, shallow, weak, / The folded meaning of your words' deceit." *(3.2)*

Cross-references

• The Comedy of Errors — the play
• Comedies
• character_adriana — her sister
• character_antipholus_of_syracuse — who falls in love with her