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The differences between The Menaechmi and The Comedy of Errors are clear.

In The Menaechmi, Plautus uses only one set of twins — twin brothers.

Shakespeare, on the other hand, uses two sets of twins, which, according to William Connolly, “ dilutes the force of situations .” One suggestion is that Shakespeare got this idea from Plautus ’ Amphitruo, in which both twin masters and twin slaves appear.