Porpentine (WAS: Underwater Themes )

[David Morris]

http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/errors/

"the story remains largely on the surface. Characters are mistaken for one 
another, but they do not pretend to be other than what they are--there are 
no disguises here, only resemblances. The plot, so concerned with outward 
appearances, appropriately turns on the exchange of material objects--a 
Courtesan's ring, a gold chain, and the thousand marks that Egeon needs to 
save his life. Virtually all interior life is absent, and the action is 
entirely physical."


>http://www.shopthenet.net/publiclibrary/Shakespeare/Comedies/comedyoferrors_3.html
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>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
[To Angelo]
>  Get you home
>  And fetch the chain; by this I know 'tis made:
>  Bring it, I pray you, to the Porpentine;
>[...]
>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
>  This woman lock'd me out this day from dinner:
>  That goldsmith there, were he not pack'd with her, 220
>  Could witness it, for he was with me then;
>  Who parted with me to go fetch a chain,
>  Promising to bring it to the Porpentine,
>  Where Balthazar and I did dine together.

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