Menaechmi
Menaechmi is a Latin comedy directed by Plautus . The German name for this piece is Die Zwei Zwillinge . It became 200 BC. Christ premiered in Rome.
content
The mistaken comedy , which is based on models of the modern Attic comedy , begins in Epidamnus after a prologue has reported the previous events: In Syracuse twin brothers were torn apart; one was kidnapped and has lived in Epidamnus ever since. The man who stayed behind received the name of his kidnapped brother from his grieving parents. Menaechmus II is now looking for his brother and finds him. Since his arrival, both of them have had the greatest incidents, which are due to various mix-ups. Menaechmus I is insulted by his friends and his wife, while Menaechmus II is courted. In order to escape the incomprehensible circumstances, Menaechmus II marks the madman, but it is Menaechmus I who is brought before the doctor. Only at the very end of the piece is everything cleared up by a comparison of the twin brothers.
Minor characters
In this play, too, there are secondary characters, the parasite, the prostitute, the worried father-in-law and the servant. With a sense for scenic effects, Plautus carries out eight well-constructed situations of confusion until the knot loosens. Shakespeare closely followed this work in his youth work Die Komödie der Errungen , he doubled the twin theme.
Settings
- Double-Trouble / Twin Comedy , opera by Richard Mohaupt (Libretto: Roger Maren ), 1954
literature
- Reclam's actor : Stuttgart: Reclam 2001 (21st edition) pp. 57–58.