The Brothers Menaechmus Plautus

Belonging to fabula palliatae, the argument of originality and contribution has arised in Plautine plays in many phases. Romanising Greek plays, Plautus didn’t merely just copy them, making slight changes here and there. In fact, he redefined...

The Comedy of Errors, written by William Shakespeare, is mirrored to a major extent by Plautus’s play The Brothers Manaechmus, both of which deal with the issue of separated twins who find themselves in the same town and are mistaken for each...