Roman Laughter

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".