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Shakespeare's story of mistaken identities, chance encounters, amorous intrigue, and multiple acts of violence centers on two sets of identical twins: Antipholus of Syracuse (Nestor Davidson) and Antipholus of Ephesus (Phillip Brittan), who are both prosperous merchants, and their foster brother servants, Dromio of Syracuse (Robinson Everett) and Dromio of Ephesus (Jason Rosencranz...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Comedy of Errors | 4/24/1987 | See Source »

...sufficient here. What these actors lack in characterization, they make up for in physical comedy, not only in the histrionic gesticulations and cartoonish violence, but also in minute details, such as droll facial expressions. Orin Percus, as the sly, playful Duke Solinus, and Everett, as the witty Syracusan Dromio, deserve special mention...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Comedy of Errors | 4/24/1987 | See Source »

...pure mechanistic comedy of the most elemental kind, revolving around an almost abstract symmetry of mistaken identities. In sketch as succinctly as possible, there are two pairs of twins, each pair sharing name Antipholus of Syracuse (Harry S. Murphy) and Antipholus of Ephesus (Paul Schierhorn), and their servant Dromio of Syracuse (Thomas Derrah) and Dromio of Ephesus (Stephen Rowe). The Antipholi and Dromios were separated in s shipwreck at a very young age, and now Antipholus of Ephesus, having sought his lost lost twin for seven years, finds himself in the hostile city of Syracuse, not knowing tat this brother...

Author: By Jean CHRISTOPHE Castelli, | Title: Live From Syracuse | 2/25/1983 | See Source »

...model of conscience, the tomb of discretion," but he is also noted for humor and informality. In 1960, he was assigned to escort Nikita Khrushchev on his tour of France, became one of the few contenders to top Khrushchev in a proverb-spouting contest. The old adage (quoted by Dromio of Syracuse in Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors) that stopped Nikita: "He must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: PEACEMAKER IN THE SKI RESORT | 3/2/1962 | See Source »

...Greek and Latin two prizes of fifty dollars each are offered to undergraduates. One is for a translation into Attic Greek of the passage in Lamb's Tales from Shakespere, "The Comedy of Errors," from the words "When Antipholus of Syracuse had sent Dromio away," through the words, "had delivered to the other Antipholus." The Latin translation is the passage in Motley's, "Rise of the Dutch Republic," Historical Introduction, III and IV, from the words, "Gaul being thus pacified," through the words, "Austrian property...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Announcement of Bowdoin Prizes. | 12/10/1904 | See Source »

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