There are editions of all eleven plays with Greek text, translation and commentary by A. H. Sommerstein (Warminster, 1980–2001). There are very good individual editions (Greek text and detailed commentary) of Wasps by D. M. MacDowell (Oxford, 1971), Women at the Thesmophoria by S. Olson (Oxford, 2004) and Frogs by K.J. Dover (Oxford, 1993).
K. J. Dover, Aristophanic Comedy (London, 1972)
K. McLeish, The Theatre of Aristophanes (London, 1980)
E. W. Handley, ‘Comedy’ in P. E. Easterling and B. M. W. Knox (eds.), The Cambridge History of Classical Literature, vol. 1 (Cambridge, 1985), pp. 355–498
R. Harriott, Aristophanes: Poet and Dramatist (Oxford, 1986)
K. J. Reckford, Aristophanes’ Old-and-New Comedy I: Six Essays in Perspective (Chapel Hill, 1987)
A. M. Bowie, Myth, Ritual, Comedy (Cambridge, 1993)
P. A. Cartledge, Aristophanes and his Theatre of the Absurd (3rd edn; Bristol, 1995)
D. M. MacDowell, Aristophanes and Athens (Oxford, 1995)
E. Segal (ed.), Oxford Readings in Aristophanes (Oxford, 1996)
C. W. Dearden, The Stage of Aristophanes (London, 1976)
D. Bain, Actors and Audiences (Oxford, 1977)
L. M. Stone, Costume in Aristophanic Comedy (New York, 1981)
A. W. Pickard-Cambridge, The Dramatic Festivals of Athens (3rd edn, revised by J. Gould and D. M. Lewis; Oxford, 1988)
C. F. Russo, Aristophanes: An Author for the Stage (London, 1994)
E. G. Csapo and W. J. Slater, The Context of Ancient Drama (Ann Arbor, 1994)
D. Wiles, Greek Theatre Performance: An Introduction (Cambridge, 2000)