Hilarious fun, this early comedy is filled with the merry violence of slapstick and farce. When two sets of twins, separated and apparently lost to each other, all end up in the rowdy, rollicking city of Ephesus, the stage is set for mix-ups, mayhem, and mistaken identity-plus the timeless puns, jokes, gags, and suspense that makes this play a wonderful theatrical frolic and a brilliant tour de force of language and laughter.Merchant of Syracuse, plead no more;I am not partial to infringe our laws: The enmity and discord which of lateSprung from the rancorous outrage of your dukeTo merchants, our well-dealing countrymen, Who wanting guilders to redeem their livesHave seal'd his rigorous statutes with their bloods, Excludes all pity from our threatening looks.For, since the mortal and intestine jars'Twixt thy seditious countrymen and us, It hath in solemn synods been decreedBoth by the Syracusians and ourselves, To admit no traffic to our adverse towns Nay, more, If any born at Ephesus be seenAt any Syracusian marts and
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