Amphityron. The Aulular. The boastful soldier.

Amphitryon sets out to fight the Teleboans. His wife, the virtuous Alcmene, eagerly awaits his return. But Jupiter, seduced by her charms, tricks her into taking on the features of the absent man. For his part, Mercury, Jupiter's messenger, enjoys making Sosie doubt his own existence. whose appearance he has also taken. The miserly Euclion has only one obsession: to put the "aulularia," a pot filled with gold, in a safe place. Suitors should be aware: he will not spend a penny to marry off his daughter! Pyrgopolinices, a boastful soldier, has kidnapped Pleusicles' young fiancée. Will the two lovers ever be able to meet again? Luckily, a cunning slave is watching over them and will outdo each other in invention to ridicule the kidnapper... Plautus wrote these whirling comedies for a popular audience eager for a change of scenery and twists. Nearly two thousand years later, Molière would draw inspiration from these improbable misunderstandings.