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William Shakespeare

981 chapters · about 68 h

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The opening

COMEDY OF ERRORS. PERSONS REPRESENTED.

PERSONS REPRESENTED.

SOLINUS Duke of Ephesus. iEG EON, a Me r chant of Syracuse. twin Brothers, and ANTIPHOLUS of Ephesus, J Sons to AEgeon and ANTIPHOLUS of Syracuse, 1 /Emilia. but unknown to each other. D ROM 10 of Ephesus, D ROM 10 of Syracuse tioin Brothers, and Attendants on the two Anti - pholus’s. BALTHAZAR, a Merchant. ANGELO, a Goldsmith. A Merchant, Friend to Antipholus of Syracuse. PINCH, a Schoolmaster and a Conjurer. ./EMILIA, Wife to AEgeon. an Abbess at Ephuua ADRIANA, Wife to Antipholus of Ephesus. LUC I A N A, her Sister. LUCE, her Servant. A Courtezan. Gaoler, Officer s% and other Attendants .

SCENE—Ephesus.

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About this edition

The words
The author's text, copied word for word.
Left out
  • Page numbers and running heads from the printed pages, in 5 places
  • The dash joining a scene's number to its setting (the setting follows as its own line)
  • Notes and pages added by translators, editors or publishers, in 4 places
  • The donor's bookplate ("Presented by: The Jaques' Heirs") and an inscription on the scanned copy
  • The title page and opening pages before chapter 1
  • Archive.org's notice ("Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2015")
  • Scan specks: marks with no letter or figure, read by the OCR from the paper (6 blocks)
  • Printer's signature (31 blocks)
  • "MISCELLANEOUS POEMS": the volume's collective heading over the poems (each poem keeps its own title)