William Warner's translation of the Menaechmi was entered into the Register of the Stationers Company on 10 June 1594, and published in 1595.

The Comedy of Errors was itself loosely based on a Roman play, The Menaechmi, or the Twin Brothers, by Plautus.

The Venetian Twins ( Italian-I due gemelli veneziani, or " The two Venetian twins ") is a 1747 play by Carlo Goldoni, based on Plautus's Menaechmi.

The Plautine and Shakespearean plays that most parallel each other are, respectively, The Menaechmi and The Comedy of Errors.

He even uses a “ villain ” in The Comedy of Errors of the same type as the one in Menaechmi, switching the character from a doctor to a teacher but keeping the character a shrewd, educated man.

On the fusion between Elizabethan and Plautine techniques, T. W. Baldwin writes, “… Errors does not have the miniature unity of Menaechmi, which is characteristic of classic structure for comedy .” Baldwin notes that Shakespeare covers a much greater area in the structure of the play than Plautus does.

In Menaechmi one of the twins is from Epidamnus ; Shakespeare changes this to Ephesus

The story mirrored in the text would thus depict a custom deeply rooted in Roman society that is described by Plautus in the scene of the Menaechmi in which the tutor of the virgo or his representatives formally give a suretyship about her attitude towards a man.

: There is also a Menaechmus in Plautus ' play, The Menaechmi.

Menaechmi, a Latin-language play, is often considered Plautus ' greatest play.

The Menaechmi is a comedy about mistaken identity, involving a set of twins, Menaechmus of Epidamnus and Menaechmus of Syracuse.

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

Works like Lysistrata by Aristophanes, Menaechmi by Plautus, Cena Trimalchionis by Petronius, and The Golden Ass of Apuleius are ribald classics from ancient Europe.

Among the prose works are Discorsi degli animali, imitations of Oriental and Aesopian fables, of which there are two French translations ; Dialogo delle bellezze delle donne, also translated into French ; Ragionamenti amorosi, a series of short tales in the manner of Boccaccio, rivalling him in elegance and in licentiousness ; Discacciamento delle nuove lettere, a controversial piece against Giangiorgio Trissino's proposal to introduce new letters into the Italian alphabet ; a free version or adaptation of The Golden Ass of Apuleius, which became a favorite book and passed through many editions ; and two comedies, I Lucidi, an imitation of the Menaechmi of Plautus, and La Trinuzia, which in some points resembles the Calandria of Cardinal Bibbiena.

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Its origins in The Menaechmi led many to see the play as a light, farcical work.

Other records also tell us about performances of the Menaechmi.

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

The hall, on the other hand, appeared lifeless and deserted on these long waterfront afternoons.

But if they really hoped to succeed they needed professionals, men who knew how to use a gun against men, who would match the killers on the other side.

They were headed straight for each other on a collision course.

I seized the rack and made a western-style flying-mount just in time, one of my knees mercifully landing on my duffel bag -- and merely wrecking my camera, I was to discover later -- my other knee landing on the slivery truck floor boards and -- but this is no medical report.

Two uniformed officers, a couple of plain-clothesmen I knew, and two other men stood on a gray cement area next to the pool on my left.

They discussed the way people never tell each other the things on their minds.

Thirty minutes later, the outrigger grated on sand and other girls, waiting on shore, rushed forward to pull it up on the beach and make it fast with vine ropes to a large boulder.

`` If you want to see something, he's back on the other side by the trunk of the car ''.

The Brahmaputra has its headwaters in the tableland of the world, the towering white headwalls of the Himalayas that are unknown to man as any other space on the planet.

He bounced exuberantly on the sagging bed and was even more delighted when Madame Lalaurie -- after closing the door -- showed the slave that the bed was designed for something other than slumber.

The lives so many of them gave, to forestall what they believed would be a fatal encroachment by the Union on the powers reserved to their states have continued ever since to safeguard all Americans against freedom's other foe.

Otherwise, we go on endlessly trying to draw the line, color and other, as to which kind of man we wish to see dominate.

Research, on the other hand, has shown many stepmothers to be eminently successful, some far better than the real mothers.

But because it is the function of the mind to turn the one into the other by means of the capacities with which words endow it, we do not unwisely examine the type of distinction, in the sphere of politics, on which decisions hang.

Mother and son recognize each other and, in Mann's version of this legend, make a remarkable confession of guilt to each other, the confession of unconscious motive and unconscious knowledge of their true identities from the time they had first set eyes on each other.

A useful comment on his relation to his region may be made, I think, by noting briefly how in handling Southern materials and Southern problems he has deviated from the pattern set by other Southern authors while remaining faithful to the essential character of the region.

As a consequence of the tensions thus produced in his thoughts and feelings, he wrote on the one hand sketches of idealized hunting trips and on the other an anecdote of the village of Hardscrabble, Arkansas, where no one had ever seen a piano ; ;

He had taken a carbine down from the wall and it trailed from his hand, the stock bumping on the wood floor.

He approached the horse and laid a hand on the stallion's quivering neck.

Now, Mis-ter McBride '', said Lord, and he laid a firmly restraining hand on the field boss's arm.

Hogan reappeared, stopped on the hotel porch, lifted a hand in signal.

No man laid a hand on him, but the threat of violence was there.

He came to the edge of the veranda, peered down at them with his hand on his gun.

Rod shifted his eager eyes from the milling group out in the circle long enough to reply, `` I ain't much of a hand for Dare-Base and Farmer-in-the-Dell, but I'd sure like to get in on the handhold and wrestles ''.

Less assured than the tall, wide-shouldered man in the lead, Cobb followed alertly, a hand on his gun butt.

Greg slapped his hand across the switches that turned on the guns and gun camera and gun sight.

But with her hand softly on his cheek for a last moment, she closed the door and he went back down the hall and into his bed excited, expectant, and finally faintly grinning with the feel of her hand against his mouth.

The marine spun, clapping a hand high on his chest, and dived forward.

Awkwardly with one hand Matsuo got the cap back on the water bottle.

First he barely touched the blade on the hand which shaded the eyes.

He didn't stop till he was within three feet of Blue Throat and by that time the gang leader's right hand was on the butt of his revolver.

While she was struggling to get her skirt down and get on her feet again, Jack ran over, offered her his hand and said, `` Gosh, I'm sorry, Miss Langford.

When her hand touched his, fire went through Jack and he felt weak, but he managed somehow to get her on her feet.

Despite this danger, however, we are informed on every hand that ideas, not machines, are our finest tools ; ;

No Jew was on hand to boycott his financially struggling theater.

Alone, rejected on every hand, divorced, and in financial trouble, he leaped from an eleventh-floor window of the Abbey Hotel in 1937.