# The Comedy of Errors — Character guide

> Key figures in The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare.

- [Antipholus of Ephesus](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_comedy_of_errors_se/characters/antipholus_of_ephesus.md): A prosperous Ephesian merchant whose locked door, arrested goldsmith, and furious wife turn one ordinary noontime into a public nightmare of mistaken identity.
- [Antipholus of Syracuse](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_comedy_of_errors_se/characters/antipholus_of_syracuse.md): A restless Syracusan traveler combing the world for the twin brother he has never met, and finding instead strangers who greet him like a husband.
- [Dromio of Ephesus](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_comedy_of_errors_se/characters/dromio_of_ephesus.md): The Ephesian merchant's much-beaten servant, whose name and office get stolen by a stranger while he stands outside his own master's door.
- [Dromio of Syracuse](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_comedy_of_errors_se/characters/dromio_of_syracuse.md): A quick-tongued servant who trades bald jokes with his master, then finds himself claimed as a husband by a kitchen wench he has never seen.
- [Adriana](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_comedy_of_errors_se/characters/adriana.md): An Ephesian wife convinced her husband is straying, who seizes the wrong twin at dinner and locks her real husband out of his own house.
- [Luciana](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_comedy_of_errors_se/characters/luciana.md): Adriana's unmarried sister, who lectures her about wifely patience and then finds herself courted by a man she believes is her brother-in-law.
- [Aegeon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_comedy_of_errors_se/characters/aegeon.md): Aegeon opens the play as a condemned man, granted one last speech to explain how shipwreck scattered his family: one son and a servant bound to a mast with him, the other two carried off with his wife. His grief is metho
- [Angelo](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_comedy_of_errors_se/characters/angelo.md): Angelo works the ordinary commerce of Ephesus — gold, credit, delivery on a promise — until the city's confusions make his honest bookkeeping look like fraud. He duns Antipholus of Ephesus for a chain that twin never rec
- [Abbess](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_comedy_of_errors_se/characters/abbess.md): When Antipholus of Syracuse flees into her priory for refuge, the Abbess bars the doors against Adriana and the crowd demanding him back, insisting she will cure his madness with syrups, drugs, and holy prayers. Her spar
- [Duke Solinus](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_comedy_of_errors_se/characters/duke_solinus.md): Solinus opens the play caught between statute and sympathy: the trade war with Syracuse condemns Aegeon to die unless a thousand marks appear, and the Duke knows the man's whole estate cannot reach a hundred. He refuses 
- [Luce](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_comedy_of_errors_se/characters/luce.md): A servant in Adriana's house, known for her sharp tongue and refusal to open the door.
- [Pinch](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_comedy_of_errors_se/characters/pinch.md): A schoolmaster and conjurer called to exorcise Antipholus of Ephesus.
- [Officer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_comedy_of_errors_se/characters/officer.md): An Ephesian officer who arrests Antipholus of Ephesus for debt.
- [Adam](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_comedy_of_errors_se/characters/adam.md): A biblical figure mentioned in passing by Dromio of Syracuse.
- [Sister](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_comedy_of_errors_se/characters/sister.md): A generic term used by Luciana to address Adriana, not a distinct character.

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