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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Shakespeare, William

Shakespeare, William
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Critic: Ranald, Margaret
Affiliation: Department Of English, Queens College

Detailed Summary Of "The Comedy Of Errors"

Act I: Scene 1

The play opens in the hall of the palace of the Duke of Ephesus in
Greece, some time in the past. Aegeon, a merchant of Syracuse, has been
arrested and brought before the Duke because he, an inhabitant of the enemy
city, has dared to land in Ephesus. So great is the hatred between these two
cities that no trade is permitted between them, and any resident of one city
found in the other is either executed or forced ...

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