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Menaechmi
Also known as Pl. Men.
Menaechmi, a Latin-language play, is often considered Plautus' greatest play. The title is sometimes translated as The Brothers Menaechmus or The Two Menaechmuses.
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- Author
- Titus Maccius Plautus
- First published
- 1840
- Editions
- 41
- Subjects
- Latin drama (Comedy), Drama, Problems, exercises, Readers, Latin language, Comedy, Criticism and interpretation, Sources
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Key facts
- Play.name
- Menaechmi
- Play.image
- Bruse0003.jpg
- Play.caption
- Scene from the Teatro Nacional Cervantes (1953), during a performance of Menaechmi
- Play.writer
- Plautus
- Play.setting
- a street in Epidamnus, before the houses of Menaechmus and Erotium
- Play.premiere
- late 3rd century BC
- Play.place
~20 min read
Article
16 sectionsContents
- Plot
- Metrical scheme
- Prologue
- Menaechmus I arranges dinner
- Menaechmus II eats the dinner
- Menaechmus II steals the cloak
- Menaechmus II is judged mad
- Menaechmus I is judged mad
- Menaechmus I is seized
- Menaechmus I is rescued
- The brothers meet
- Adaptations and influences
- Translations
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Menaechmi, a Latin-language play, is often considered Plautus' greatest play. The title is sometimes translated as The Brothers Menaechmus or The Two Menaechmuses.
Menaechmi is a comedy about mistaken identity, involving a set of twins, Menaechmus of Epidamnus and Menaechmus of Syracuse. It incorporates various Roman stock characters including the parasite, the comic courtesan, the comic slave, the domineering wife, the doddering father-in-law and the quack doctor. As with most of Plautus' plays, much of the dialogue was sung.