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===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.
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