Luciana: Patience and Its Complications
First appears: Act 2, Scene 1
Luciana counsels her sister Adriana to accept the traditional role of a wife: patient, subordinate, trusting. She speaks about this with conviction. She has not been married.
When Antipholus of Syracuse woos her in Act 3, thinking he is meeting a stranger, she is horrified, believing he is her brother-in-law. Her rejection of him is entirely principled. But she also tells Adriana about it, which suggests she took it seriously.
She ends the play with a match expected with Antipholus of Syracuse, which gives her theoretical counsels about patience something more to work with.
Key Scenes
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“Why, headstrong liberty is lash'd with woe. There's nothing situate under heaven's eye But hath his bound, in earth, in sea, in sky.”
Luciana — Act 2, Scene 1
“And may it be that you have quite forgot A husband's office? shall, Antipholus. Even in the spring of love, thy love-springs rot? Shall love, in building, grow so ruinous?”
Luciana — Act 3, Scene 2
Themes
Other Characters in The Comedy of Errors
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