History Theatre / TheComedyOfErrors

* FemaleMisogynist: Luciana thinks women are meant to be obedient to men and insults her sister for complaining about her flaky husband. The sister has none of it, calling her a hypocrite for being unmarried, a cuckold for advocating obeying an unfaithful husband, and so servile that no man would marry her anyway.
* GreenEyedMonster: Adriana is so jealous of her husband's hypothetical mistress that she rationalizes his twin brother's total ignorance of her as an attempt to cover up his affair. Luciana calls her out for this.

* MistakenForCheating: Adriana rationalizes all the absurd behavior "her husband" is doing by assuming he doesn't love her anymore and is covering up an affair. All of the absurdity she notices is a result of the TwinSwitch, but unbeknownst to her and the audience, her husband is seeing a courtesan at the same time!
* MistakenForInsane: By the end of Act IV, Adriana is so astonished by Antipholus; behavior that she thinks a demon is driving him mad and hires an exorcist to cure him.
* NoodleIncident: Dromio is apparently jumped on by Nell and harassed in a scene we never see or get a lot of context for. (The Karamozov Brothers do show her chasing Dromio around the set frequently--she's doublecast with the Duke.)

* SharedIdentity: The basic premise is that a set of master and servant land in a strange city - where each has an identical twin with the same name, also master and servant. The titular errors are the result of confusing the twins from these pairs.

* [[HeWhoMustNotBeSeen She Who Must Not Be Seen]]: Nell from the kitchen again never appears, but is described in detail as bizarrely and impossibly hideous by Dromio. (Not all productions adhere to this; in the Karamozov version she was given some lines of her own.)

* BluntNo: Antipholus of Ephesus answers Lucianus' request to be with "his" wife with a rare one-word Skakespeare line: no. It also acts as a delayed rhyme to Lucianus' last full sentence, emphasizing it even further.

* ButtMonkey: Both Dromios. Each one is beaten whenever they run into the wrong Antipholus. Or when one Antipholus demands an update on a task he sent the other Dromio to do. Or when Adriana and her sister send him to fetch Antipholus and he gets the wrong one... or when Dromio of S meets Dromio of E's fiancee.
* ChristianityIsCatholic: Anglican plays are like modern horror movies in that when you get an exorcist, you have to get a Catholic speaking Latin. The Anglican Church had abolished Latin Rites in favor for English ones, so the only clergy is only represented by a Roman Catholic in this play. This isn't necessarily flattering, though, since other characters call him a sorcerer, a fortune-teller, and a fraud.

While not as popular as Shakespeare's A-list, ''Comedy of Errors'' is still performed today. It was adapted into a Rodgers and Hart musical, ''The Boys from Syracuse'', and into a 1988 movie, ''Big Business'', starring Creator/LilyTomlin and Creator/BetteMidler (as the gender-flipped pairs of twins). There is also a famous but (until Website/YouTube) hard-to-find 1987 production by the juggling troupe The Flying Karamozov Brothers, which begins with the famous line... "In Syracuse, you dress in a tie. In Ephesus, you ''JUGGLE OR DIE!''"

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* SnubByOmission: Dromio describes at length the hideous features of Nell that remind him of awful countries, but when asked if any part of her reminded him of Belgium or the Netherlands, he doesn't give them the time of day because of how gross their corresponding part must be.

* FemaleMisogynist: Luciana thinks women are meant to be obedient to men and insults her sister for complaining about her flaky husband. The sister has none of it, calling her a hypocrite for being unmarried, a cuckold for advocating obeying unfaithful husband, and so servile that no man would marry her anyway.

** Some productions get around this by simply having the twins played by the same actor. Done right, this can create a whole new level of comedy, though it requires the use of {{FakeShemp}}s for the twins in the resolution (for example, the 2013 New York Public Theater version).

* AcceptableEthnicTargets: Dromio at length compares unflattering features of a hideous women to a bunch of countries the English had conflict with. Ireland is the woman's boggish butt, Scotland is the woman's barrenness, France is her giant forehead, and Spain is her terrible breath.