Menaechmi

Menaechmi, a Latin-language play, is considered by many as Plautus' greatest play.

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Latin - Plautus

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The Menaechmi is a play about mistaken identity, involving a set of twins, Menaechmus of Epidamnus and Menaechmus of Syracuse. It incorporated various Roman stock characters, like the parasite, comic courtesan, comic servant, domineering wife, doddering father-in-law and quack doctor. As the case with most Plautus's plays much of the dialogue was sung.

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Stock characters - Plautus

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This play has been adapted by William Shakespeare in Comedy of Errors and Rodgers and Hart in The Boys from Syracuse.

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William Shakespeare - Comedy of Errors - Rodgers and Hart - The Boys from Syracuse

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