His successor Plautus, the Roman playwright whose comedies inspired the musical A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, regularly based his plots on sexual situations.Robert Blumenfeld, Using The Stanislavsky System: A Practical Guide To Character Creation and Period Styles (Limelight Editions, 2008), p. 100. The popularity of Plautus's comedies was a major influence on the creation of situation sex comedy.Paul Kuritz, The Making of Theatre History (1988), p. 51.
