Bruster, Douglas. "Comedy and Control: Shakespeare and the Plautine Poeta." Comparative Drama 24, No. 3 (Fall 1990): 217–31.

Argues that a character common in Shakespeare's works—the "controlling playwright figure"—is a derivation of Plautus's poeta, or clever slave.

Forehand, Walter E. "Irony in Plautus' Amphitruo." American Journal of Philology XCII, No. 4 (October 1971): 633–51.

Analyzes Amphitruo in terms of ironies of language and plot and comments on "the implications of these ironies for our view of the play as a whole."

Goldberg, Sander M. "Act to Action in Plautus' Bacchides." Classical Philology 85, No. 3 (July 1990): 191–201.

Compares Bacchides to its Greek model, Menander's Dis Exapaton and argues that the primary difference between the two works is a matter of "fundamental changes in the idea of comic theater."

Handley, E. W. Menander and Plautus: A Study in Comparison. London: H. K. Lewis & Co., Ltd., 1968, 23 p.

Offers an assessment of Plautus's literary debt to Menander, his Greek forerunner.

Levin, Harry. "Two Comedies of Errors." In Refractions, Essays in Comparative Literature, pp. 128–50. New York: Oxford University Press, 1966.

Examines the comic techniques used by Plautus in Menaechmi and the ways in which these techniques influenced Shakespeare and other dramatists.

Lowe, J. C. B. "The Virgo Callida of Plautus, Persa." Classical Quarterly 39, No. 2 (1989): 390–99.

Examines the theme of trickery and deception in Persa.

——. "Prisoners, Guards, and Chains in Plautus, Captivi." American Journal of Philology 112, No. 1 (Spring 1991): 29–44.

Explores staging issues in Captivi and identifies contradictory evidence of Plautus's intentions as to how it should be performed.

O'Bryhim, Shawn. "The Originality of Plautus' Casina." American Journal of Philology 110, No. 1 (Spring 1989): 81–103.

Argues that Plautus used two comedies as a basis for Casina, made changes within portions of each comedy, and blended these portions with his own material in order to create a "coherent, tightly constructed plot."

Prescott, Henry W. "The 'Amphitruo' of Plautus." Classical Philology VIII, No. 1 (January 1913): 14–22.

Dissects F. Leo's 1911 critical analysis of the play and argues that Amphitruo "is the most important document … for reconstructing the antecedents of the New Comedy of Hellenistic Athens."

Slater, Niall W. Plautus in Performance: The Theatre of the Mind. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1985, 190 p.

Attempts to reconstruct both the initial performances and original audiences of Plautus's plays.

Zagagi, Netta. "Tradition and Originality in Plautus: Studies of the Amatory Motifs in Plautine Comedy." Hypomnemata 62 (1980): 15–159.

Analyzes Plautus's debt to his Greek predecessors for the depiction of love in his plays.

Additional coverage of Plautus's life and career is contained in the following source published by Gale Research: Drama Criticism, Vol. 6.