Gesine Manuwald is Senior Lecturer in Latin Language and Literature, Department of Greek and Latin, University College London.

• Preface Notes for the Reader Introduction: Overview of Roman DramaI 1 Background and evolution I 2 Dramatic genres I 3 Dramatic poets I 4 Occasions and venues I 5 Actors and productions I 6 Audiences 17 Poetry and performance I 8 Form and style I 9 Characteristics and developments I 10 Reception and transmissionIllustrations Appendix 1 Roman dramatic poets and their plays Appendix 2 Chronological table Testimonia on Roman DramaT 1 On the introduction of drama to Rome (Liv. 7.2; Val. Max. 2.4.4)T 2 On the introduction of Greek literature to Rome (Hor. Epist. 2.1.145-67)T 3 On the dates of the early dramatists (Cic. Brut. 71-6; Gell. NA 17.21.42-9)T 4 On the assessment of comic poets (Volcacius Sedigitus, fr. 1 FPL3, ap. Gell. NA 15.24)T 5 On the assessment of early Roman dramatists (Hor. Epist. 2.1.50-62)T 6 On the assessment of Roman dramatists (Quint. Inst. 10.1.97-100)T 7 On theatre buildings (Vitr. 5.6; Tert. Spect. 10.1-9)T 8 On the development of theatre buildings (Val. Max. 2.4.1-3, 6)T 9 On revival performances of ‘old’ plays (Plaut. Cas. 5-20) (some fragments) D 2 Ennius, Medea exul (all fragments) D 3 Pacuvius, Medus (all fragments) D 4 Pacuvius, on Fortuna (one long fragment) D 5 Accius, Medea sive Argonautae (some fragments) D 6 Accius, Brutus (some fragments) D 7 Plautus, Amphitruo 1-152 (prologue) D 8 Plautus, Miles gloriosus 1-78 (I 1) D 9 Caecilius Statius, Plocium (Gellius, NA 2.23) D 10 Terence, Eunuchus 232-64 (II 2); 771-816 (IV 7) D 11 Terence, Adelphoe 26-81 (I 1); 81-154 (I 2) D 12 Afranius, Divortium (all fragments) D 13 Decimus Laberius and Publilius Syrus (Macrob. Sat. 2.7.1-10) D 14 Seneca, Medea 150-78; 893-977 D 15 Pseudo-Seneca, Octavia 377-592 Nachleben of Roman DramaN 1 Nicholas Udall (1552), Roister Doister (Prologue; IV 7-8) N 2 William Shakespeare (early 1590s), The Comedy of Errors (III 1) N 3 Matthew Gwinne (1603), Nero (II 3) N 4 John Dryden (1690), Amphitryon; or The Two Sosias (I 1) N 5 Tony Harrison (1985), Medea: a sex-war opera (openings of acts 1 and 2)Bibliography and Further Reading

Manuwald's Reader usefully gathers into one place some of the key testimonia bearing on Roman drama.