The Shakespeare comedy featuring the shipwrecked twins Antipholus of Syracuse and Antipholus of Ephesus is The Comedy of Errors.
The play follows two pairs of identical twins separated during a storm at sea. Years later, Antipholus of Syracuse and his servant Dromio arrive in Ephesus, unknowingly entering the home city of their twin counterparts. The resulting confusion drives the farcical plot.
Mistaken identity leads to wrongful beatings, accusations of theft and madness, a disputed gold chain, and Antipholus of Ephesus being locked out of his own house. The comedy reaches its resolution when the separated family members finally recognize one another.
Shakespeare adapted much of the premise from Plautus's Roman comedy Menaechmi, while adding the second pair of servant twins. The play is among Shakespeare's earliest and shortest comedies, and its title has become a general expression for a disastrously confused sequence of events.