Comedy · 1852

Menaechmi

The Twin Brothers

by Plautus

Translated by Henry Thomas Riley (1852)

A comedy of mistaken identity: one twin, carried off as a child to Epidamnus, is mistaken for the other, who has come in search of him, so that a courtesan, a parasite, a wife and a father-in-law all take the stranger for the man they know. It was the source of Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors.

Contents · 27 parts

• Dramatis Personae10 lines
• The Subject1 paragraph
• The Acrostic Argument1 paragraph
• The Prologue2 paragraphs
• Act I, Scene I2 paragraphs
• Act I, Scene II47 lines
• Act I, Scene III28 lines
• Act I, Scene IV9 lines
• Act II, Scene I14 paragraphs
• Act II, Scene II40 lines
• Act II, Scene III9 lines
• Act II, Scene IV52 lines
• Act III, Scene I2 paragraphs
• Act III, Scene II25 lines
• Act III, Scene III20 lines
• Act IV, Scene I6 paragraphs
• Act IV, Scene II66 lines
• Act IV, Scene III13 paragraphs
• Act V, Scene I27 lines
• Act V, Scene II52 paragraphs
• Act V, Scene I (second Act V heading)2 paragraphs
• Act V, Scene II (second Act V heading)7 lines
• Act V, Scene III46 lines
• Act V, Scene IV2 paragraphs
• Act V, Scene V30 paragraphs
• Act V, Scene VI5 paragraphs
• Act V, Scene VII82 lines

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