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The 18 pages that link to Plautus, each with the reason it gives.

• FarceRelated: His plots of deception, mistaken identity, and clever servants shaped later farcical comedy.

• ComedyBroader topic: His theatrical inventions became durable resources for European comedy.

• Roman comedyBroader topic: His surviving comedies are the fullest expression of Roman farce, music, and verbal play.

• Roman theatreRelated: His comedies reveal how Roman theatre reshaped Greek models for local audiences.

• TragicomedyRelated: Amphitryon is an early play later described as tragicomic because it mixes divine and comic action.

• Punic languageRelated: His Poenulus preserves a rare literary representation of spoken Punic.

• Mistaken identityRelated: His twin and disguise plots helped establish comic patterns later reused in European theater.

• Ben JonsonRelated: Jonson adapted Plautine plots and comic devices for English audiences.

• MenanderRelated: His adaptations transmit plots and comic devices associated with Menander’s tradition.

• TerenceCompared with: His more exuberant style offers a striking comparison with Terence’s restrained dialogue.

• Roman literatureBroader topic: His comedies reveal how imported dramatic plots became lively Latin stage works.

• Stock characterRelated: Plautus’s plays helped transmit recurring comic character types into later European theater.

• Greek comedyRelated: His adaptations transmit New Comedy plots into the Roman theatrical tradition.

• Old LatinRelated: His lively adaptations are the largest surviving body of Old Latin literature.

• Gnaeus NaeviusRelated: Plautus belonged to the same early Roman theatrical world as Naevius.

• Caecilius StatiusRelated: Plautus was Caecilius's major predecessor in Roman adaptation of Greek comedy.

• Eduard FraenkelRelated: Fraenkel’s study of Plautine comedy applies close philological analysis to Roman drama.

• Epicharmus of CosRelated: His plays transmit Greek comic traditions from a later period, though direct influence from Epicharmus is difficult to establish.