This text of The Comedy of Errors is from Volume I of thenine-volume 1863 Cambridge edition of Shakespeare. The Preface (e-text 23041) and the other plays from this volume are eachavailable as separate e-texts.
General Notes are in their original location at the end of the play,followed by the text-critical notes originally printed at the bottom ofeach page. All notes are hyperlinked in both directions. In dialogue,a link from a speaker’s name generally means that the note appliesto an entire line or group of lines.
Line numbers—shown in the right margin and used for allnotes—are from the original text. In prose passages the exact linecounts will depend on your browser settings, and will probably bedifferent from the displayed numbers. Stage directions were not includedin the line numbering.
| Dramatis Personæ | ||
| Act I | Scene 1 | A hall in the Duke’s palace. |
| Scene 2 | The Mart. | |
| Act II | Scene 1 | The house of Antipholus of Ephesus. |
| Scene 2 | A public place. | |
| Act III | Scene 1 | Before the house of Antipholus of Ephesus. |
| Scene 2 | The same. | |
| Act IV | Scene 1 | A public place. |
| Scene 2 | The house of Antipholus of Ephesus. | |
| Scene 3 | A public place. | |
| Scene 4 | A street. | |
| Act V | Scene 1 | A street before a Priory. |
| Endnotes | ||
Critical Apparatus (“Linenotes”) | ||
Texts Used (from general preface) | ||
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