Menaechmi

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

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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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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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Latin: Latin is an Indo-European language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. It gained great importance as the formal language of the Roman Empire. All Romance languages are descended from Latin, and many words based on Latin are found in other modern languages such as English. The ...

Plautus: Titus Maccius Plautus (born at Sarsina, Umbria in 254 B.C.) was a comic playwright in the time of the Roman Republic. The years of his life are uncertain, but his plays were first produced between about 205 BC and 184 BC. Twenty-one plays survive....

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