First Folio facsimile from SCETI--Good to look at; not practical for reading or study
First Folio in HTML from University of Virginia--very useful for reading and study
The City of Ephesus.
Locate Syracuse and Ephesus on a chart of the Mediterranean Basin.
Encyclopedia Britannica articles on
The Menaechmi
On marriage, see the Elizabethan Homily on the State of Matrimony; it teaches that a good marriage should be like a friendship, but with the husband in authority. Very important also is Edmund Tilney's Flower of Friendship: A Brief Discourse on Marriage (1678).
See also the frontispiece from John Wing's The Crown Conjugal (London 1632); it specifies both mutuality and male
Thomas H. Luxon, "Humanist Marriage and The Comedy of Errors" Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme (25:4) pp. 45-65, 2001 Autumn. See "Files".
s authority in marriage, citing the Bible for each.
The speech of Aristophanes from Plato's Symposium (189e-193d) dramatized in a YouTube video:Speech of Aristophanes
William Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors - in 30 Seconds