Nevertheless, we are sparing nothing for the sake of getting at the truth; he is already thoroughly dislocated, we are applying all the herbs of Saint John's day; as saith the old comedian
Plautus,--
Shortly after the middle of the century, probably, the head-master of Westminister School, Nicholas Udall, took the further step of writing for his boys on the classical model an original farce-comedy, the amusing 'Ralph Roister Doister.' This play is so close a copy of Plautus' 'Miles Gloriosus' and Terence's 'Eunuchus' that there is little that is really English about it; a much larger element of local realism of the traditional English sort, in a classical framework, was presented in the coarse but really skillful
Meanwhile students at the universities, also, had been acting Plautus and Terence, and further, had been writing and acting Latin tragedies, as well as comedies, of their own composition.
there were Naevius, and Andronicus, and
Plautus, and Terentius.
This 1962 Tony Award-winning musical has an impressive pedigree: an ingenious early score by Stephen Sondheim ("Sweeney Todd," "Into the Woods"), plus a zany burlesque-style script by Larry Gelbart ("M*A*S*H," "Tootsie") and Burt Shevelove ("No, No Nannette") inspired by the ancient Roman comedies of
Plautus.
Witzke's "'I knew I had a brother!': Fraternity and Identity in
Plautus's Menaechmi and Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest" asserts that
Plautus's play and Wilde's play are "rarely considered together" (321).
This study guide/supplementary text on Roman playwright
Plautus and his comedy Casina is intended for students with no knowledge of Latin.
Once he studied the history of comic literature, he realised that his Glaswegian wide boy owed a lot to the ancient Roman playwright
Plautus.
The Radio Times described it as "loosely based on the musical A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum and the works of Roman playwright
Plautus".