Its first recorded performance was on 28th December 1594. An early play in the canon.
The play wasn’t printed before appearing in the First Folio. Probably typeset from Shakespeare’s draft manuscripts, or a copy of them.
‘Methinks you are my glass, and not my brother.’
The Comedy of Errors, V i
Brief synopsis of the play
This classic farce features two sets of identical twins, both accidentally separated at birth by a shipwreck. Antipholus (master) and Dromio (servant) of Syracuse visit the Greek city of Ephesus, where – unknown to them – their respective twins now live. All become caught in a comic knot of confusion and mistaken identities.
