Romola on Aulularia: “And though--since I agree with the divine Petrarca, when he declares, quoting the `Aulularia' of Plautus, who again was indebted for the truth to the supreme Greek intellect, `Optimam foeminam nullam esse, alia licet alia pejor sit'--I cannot boast that thou art entirely lifted out of that lower…”
Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea on The Captives: “Plautus's play The Captives seems to deal with precisely this issue: a master changes places with his slave”