Word: amphituo
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...stage. (Mercury takes a stint as an identical copy of Amphitryon’s slave in order to facilitate Zeus bedroom escapades.) But the script, to its own detriment, borrows freely from Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors (which was based in part on Plautus’ Amphituo) and in doing so brazenly ignores any and all possible questions or concerns to which this unique and fascinating interaction of gods and humans might lead. The result is a brilliantly polished but rather empty and derivative play...
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