This Act closes with two new incidents of use in the sequel:  What are they?

QUERIES FOR DISCUSSION

Why has Shakespeare chosen to make Antipholus the Stranger abhor Adriana, and be attracted to her sister instead?  What is the result for the plot?  Is it a mistake that the promised match between Luciana and the Stranger is not consummated at the close of the play?  Is the reference then made to it the best imaginable?  How, if so, is it reconcilable with the more rapid matches at the close of other plays, e.g.  Oliver and Celia in “As You Like It?”

ACT IV

COMPLICATIONS GROW

The errors of the early Acts begin simply and proceed by begetting other errors and beginning, also, with but one of the twin masters and one of the twin men-servants proceed by involving every one in each of the two Antipholus groups.  In this Act others outside the main groups are continually being interwoven in the net of complications.  In which Act did these larger social complications arise, and how are they carried on in the present Act.  Show how by means of these larger circles of complication, e.g., the arrests, the visits of the Courtisan to Adriana in the attempt to get back her ring, the conjurring scenes, etc., the confusion becomes extreme.  And then show, also, how by the very means of these larger circles of complication the clearing up process is brought forward.  To whom is the suggestion due that Antipholus the Native has gone mad?  What fitness is there in that, especially in its being broached by a minor character?  Trace the relation of the Goldsmith, his delays and his debts to the Plot.  How does it come about effectively that in this Act the wrong master and man are together, the opposite of what has prevailed, earlier?  Show how in the eagerness of Adriana to send the gold and the grief over what she jealously suspects to be the cause of it, a tragic situation is reached.  In which scene is the most complex confusion reached.

QUERIES FOR DISCUSSION

Is the confusion of identity, the domestic discord or the bewitchment and supposed lunacy the most powerful factor in the plot of error.  Which is the most comical and which the most tragic moment in this Act?

ACT V

SOLUTIONS MAKE ALL THE STRANGERS FEEL AT HOME

The climax of bewilderment being reached in the evidence that the same man is both out of the Priory and in it, solutions follow.  Trace the steps by which this is accomplished.

Why is the attack upon Antipholus the Stranger assigned to the Merchant who is the Goldsmith’s creditor instead of to the Goldsmith?  Is it by chance or is there some reason for it?  Why did not Antipholus explain that he had the chain through no option of his own?  By means of the Merchant drawing his sword and detaining him, the scene with Adriana at the close of the preceding Act when his flight prevented her from having him bound as a mad man is carried on again, and refuge in the Priory forced upon him.