Roman Comedy

Gesine Manuwald is Professor of Latin at University College London (UCL). Her research interests include Roman drama, Roman epic, Roman oratory and the reception of the classical world especially in Neo-Latin literature; she has published widely on all these areas.

• Roman ComedyGesine ManuwaldAbstractKeywords1 Introduction2 Performance Contexts3 Editions, Commentaries, and Translations4 Surveys and Reference Works5 Fabula palliata6 Fabula togata7 Fabula Atellana8 Mimus / Planipes9 Pantomimus10 Reception of Roman Comedy11 ConclusionsBibliographyEditions, Commentaries, TranslationsSecondary Literature

"Manuwald talks about more than just Plautus and Terence, Roman comedy’s usual suspects. Her discussion of Quellenforschung, Greek originals, Italian influences, and interpolation (pp. 23–27) is very clear and helpful. And her overview of the rest of comedy beyond the big two—other authors of palliata, plus togata, Atellana, and mime and pantomime (pp. 43–54)—is excellent, clear, crisp, and engaging. If you’re a Plautus/Terence scholar looking to branch out to other areas of the genre, or looking to get back into Plautine & Terentian studies after a couple of decades away, this is a great tool for the job. [...] Ultimately, Manuwald’s Roman Comedy is a grand synthesis of more than a century of scholarship, a synthesis undertaken by a scholar at the top of her field—clear proof, to be sure, of the importance of the genre and its study, despite longstanding short-selling of it by classicists." - T. H. M. Gellar-Goad, Wake Forest University, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2020.12.07