Menaechmi, a Latin-language play, is often considered Plautus' greatest play. The title is sometimes translated as The Brothers Menaechmus or The Two...

as the poles". The differences between the Menaechmi and The Comedy of Errors are clear. In the Menaechmi, Plautus uses only one set of twins—twin brothers...

Fontaine suggests that Plautus alludes to the sicilicus in the prologue to Menaechmi. Open O, although this is a full letter, and not a diacritic placed above...

around for all of human history. Works like Lysistrata by Aristophanes, Menaechmi by Plautus, Cena Trimalchionis by Petronius, and The Golden Ass of Apuleius...

cultural phenomena. The ancient Roman playwright Plautus' (c. 254 – 184 BCE) Menaechmi includes a scene in which Menaechmus I puts on his wife's dress, then...

Dubrovnik, Croatia. Illyria may have been suggested by the Roman comedy Menaechmi, the plot of which also involves twins who are mistaken for each other...

Apartments. He took a great interest in theatrics, and he even had Plautus's Menaechmi performed in his apartments. In addition to the arts, Alexander VI also...

Venetian twins") is a 1747 play by Carlo Goldoni, based on Plautus's Menaechmi. It was performed by Il Teatro Stabile of Genoa at the 1965 Edinburgh...

further from classical models. The Comedy of Errors, an adaptation of Menaechmi, follows the model of new comedy closely. Shakespeare's other Elizabethan...

play. The Comedy of Errors was itself loosely based on a Roman play, The Menaechmi, or the Twin Brothers, by Plautus. The show premiered on Broadway in 1938...