The Comedy of Errors is one of Shakespeare's earliest plays, written between 1591 and 1594. And it is one of his funniest.

The play is a farcical treatment of the alway popular case of mistken identity. Shakespeare and his audiences obviously found humor in the unlikely premise that parents would name both of their twin sons Antipholus, and that another set of parents would name both of their twin sons Dromio...and that the two Dromios would become servants to the two Antipholuses...and that after a shipwreck, one Anitpholus and his mother and his servant Dromio would reach Ephesus while the other Anitpholus and his father and his Dromio would return to Syracuse...and that twenty years later, without having seen each other, the two Antipholuses and the two Dromios would still be dressed identically. The resulting play is hilarious...