Comparative openings of speeches Transformation and identification motifs
Mythological material
Animating the inanimate
Expansion of the dialogue
Expansion of monologues
Implausibility in conversations
The predominance of the slave's role
'Contaminated' plays
The nature and origins of the cantica
Plautus as a poet.
Plautine elements in Plautus : (Plautinisches im Plautus) by Eduard Fraenkel. ISBN 9780199249107. Published by Oxford University Press in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.