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A merchant of Syracuse has twin sons and buys twin servants for them. His wife, with one twin and one servant, is soon separated from him by a shipwreck, and comes to live in Ephesus. When grown, the other son and his slave start out to find their brothers, and the father, some years later, starts out in turn to find them. Once in Ephesus, an amusing series of errors begins.

Fourteen-year-old Rebecca Zane had big plans for summer, none of which involved her stepping foot inside of Rodger Academy. But plans change when she somehow gets stuck in summer school, with none other than her least favorite person, Luke Hess. Instead of cleanup duty, Rebecca finds herself transported to 18th-century London with no clear way home. Join Rebecca as she unknowingly passes initiation into the Sanguinity Publishing Secret Society (SPSS) and along the way finds out ordinary people can do extraordinary things.

This play is a dramatization of Boccaccio’s story of Gillette of Narbonne. Only the comic parts were of Shakespeare’s invention; he added the characters of the pusillanimous Parolles, the lofty courtier Lafew, the Clown Lavatch, and the long suffering Countess. He gave new depth and vitality to the leading characters, who are mere outlines in Boccaccio’s tale.