• Menaechmi, a Latin-language play, is often considered Plautus' greatest play. The title is sometimes translated as The Brothers Menaechmus or The Two...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • influence speech, as demonstrated in Michael Fontaine's analysis of Plautus's Menaechmi. Fontaine explores how linguistic missteps, such as spoonerisms, can reveal...
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    around for all of human history. Works like Lysistrata by Aristophanes, Menaechmi by Plautus, Cena Trimalchionis by Petronius, and The Golden Ass of Apuleius...
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    further from classical models. The Comedy of Errors, an adaptation of Menaechmi, follows the model of new comedy closely. Shakespeare's other Elizabethan...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    The Venetian Twins (category Works based on Menaechmi)
    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...
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    century BC comedic playwright and author of Miles Gloriosus, Pseudolus, and Menaechmi. Terence, wrote between 170 and 160 BC. Titinius, writing in the second...
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  • the Fall" Douglas E. Gerber, Greek Iambic Poetry, Loeb Classical Library (1999), page 1 Gratwick, A.S. (1993) Plautus: Menaechmi (Cambridge), p. 44....
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  • Terence’s The Eunuch (Eunuchus), and Plautus' The Brothers Menaechmus (Menaechmi), as well as other classical and literary works. His translations of plays...
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  • (197–184 BC) Poenulus (195–189 BC) Trinummus (194 BC) Aulularia (194–190 BC) Menaechmi (194–186 BC) Bacchides (194–184 BC) Mostellaria (193 BC) Pseudolus (191...
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    The Comedy of Errors (category Works based on Menaechmi)
    the reunification of the family. The play is a modernised adaptation of Menaechmi by Plautus. As William Warner's translation of the classical drama was...
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  • Stephens (1994) The Prosody of Greek Speech, p. 75; Gratwick, A.S. Plautus: Menaechmi, p. 44. August Böckh, (1809). Über die Versmasse des Pindaros, p. 116;...
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  • La Calandria (play) (category Works based on Menaechmi)
    Cardinal Bernardo Dovizi da Bibbiena in 1513. The plot is based on Plautus' Menaechmi and one of the central character's, Calandro, was borrowed from Giovanni...
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    Deena; Douglass Parker (12 March 1999). Five Comedies: Miles Gloriosus, Menaechmi, Bacchides, Hecyra and Adelphoe. Hackett Publishing. p. 193. ISBN 9780872203624...
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  • the 1970s A Comedy of Terrors, 2021 historical novel by Lindsey Davis Menaechmi, comic play by Plautus (254 BC-184 BC), basis for the play by Shakespeare...
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    actors who have played multiple roles in the same film List of impostors Menaechmi, a classical play about separated twins Mimicry Operation Mincemeat Political...
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    Orthographia VII,33,5 Fontaine, Michael (2006). ""Sicilicissitat" (Plautus, "Menaechmi" 12) and Early Geminate Writing in Latin (With an Appendix on "Men." 13)"...
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    Though containing glaringly immoral scenes, using the plot of Plautus's Menaechmi, it possessed the features of modern comedy and won plaudits for its sparkling...
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  • La calandria (1972 film) (category Works based on Menaechmi)
    Renaissance play La calandria by Bernardo Dovizi, itself based on Plautus' Menaechmi and Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron. The luxurious Livio (Lando Buzzanca)...
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  • Cambridge Latin Troades Seneca the younger 1551–2 Trinity, Cambridge Latin Menaechmi Plautus 1551–2 Trinity, Cambridge Latin Stichus Plautus 1544 Queens',...
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    Seven Reedes (1584), a collection of prose tales; and a translation of the Menæchmi of Plautus (1595). Albion's England consisted originally of four "books...
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    brothers, Pertinax, Peregrine, and Percival Single, not less alike than the Menaechmi of Plautus, or the Antipholises of Shakspeare, but very different in their...
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  • the 4th-century tragic poet Sosiphanes A character in Plautus's play Menaechmi This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name...
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  • Hippolytus / Aristophanes: The Clouds, Peace / Menander: Dyskolos / Plautus: Menaechmi / Terence: Andria / Seneca: Octavia (1970) No. 6. Virgil: Bucolics. Georgics...
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  • mêlée d'ariettes 3 acts Joseph Patrat, after Titus Maccius Plautus's Menaechmi 7 November 1786 Fontainebleau Le comte d'Albert drame mise en musique...
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