These are two "comic" plays originally produced 2000 years apart. Wasps was written by Aristophanes in 422BC in the city-state of Athens, and Suitors as "Les Plaideurs" in 1669 in Paris. Suitors, or "The Litigants" as it is often translated, was loosely based on The Wasps. The two are often compared, but never as easily as they can be now.