Question: summary of comedy of errors in simple english

title: The Comedy of Errors
text: Antipholus of Ephesus returns home for dinner and is enraged to find that he is rudely refused entry to his own house by Dromio of Syracuse , who is keeping the gate . He is ready to break down the door , but his friends persuade him not to make a scene . He decides , instead , to dine with a courtesan . Inside the house , Antipholus of Syracuse discovers that he is very attracted to his `` wife 's '' sister , Luciana of Smyrna , telling her `` train me not , sweet mermaid , with thy note / To drown me in thy sister 's flood of tears . '' She is flattered by his attentions , but worried about their moral implications . After she exits , Dromio of Syracuse announces that he has discovered that he has a wife : Nell , a hideous kitchen - maid . He describes her as `` spherical , like a globe ; I could find out countries in her '' . Antipholus jokingly asks him to identify the countries , leading to a witty exchange in which parts of her body are identified with nations . Ireland is her buttocks : `` I found it out by the bogs '' . He claims he has discovered America and the Indies `` upon her nose all o'er embellished with rubies , carbuncles , sapphires , declining their rich aspect to the hot breath of Spain ; who sent whole armadoes of caracks to be ballast at her nose . '' ( This is one of Shakespeare 's few references to America . ) The Syracusans decide to leave as soon as possible , and Dromio runs off to make travel plans . Antipholus of Syracuse is apprehended by Angelo of Ephesus , a goldsmith , who claims that he ordered a chain from him . Antipholus is forced to accept the chain , and Angelo says that he will return for payment . An