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Roman Laughter
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Roman Laughter: The Comedy of Plautus is a book by Erich Segal, published by the Harvard University Press in 1968. It is a scholarly study of the work of the ancient Roman playwright Titus Maccius Plautus, whose "twenty complete comedies constitute the largest extant corpus of classical dramatic literature".
James W. Halporn, in a review in The Classical Journal, criticised Segal's "serious misunderstanding of Freudian psychology and his real lack of grasp of important Plautine scholarship" which in Halporn's view made the work as a whole "superficial, inaccurate, and misleading".
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