Editing Plautus (section)

===Later periods===
20th century musicals based on Plautus include ''[[A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum]]'' ([[Larry Gelbart]] and [[Burt Shevelove]], book, [[Stephen Sondheim]], music and lyrics).

[[Roman Laughter|''Roman Laughter: The Comedy of Plautus'']], a 1968 book by [[Erich Segal]], is a scholarly study of Plautus' work.

The British TV [[sitcom]] ''[[Up Pompeii!]]'' uses situations and stock characters from Plautus's plays.  In the first series [[Willie Rushton]] plays Plautus who pops up on occasion to provide comic comments on what is going on in the episode.