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The 16 pages that link to Roman comedy, each with the reason it gives.

• Picaresque novelRelated: Its clever low-status characters supplied comic precedents for the picaro.

• ComedyBroader topic: Roman playwrights transmitted comic plots and stock characters to later theater.

• Roman theatreBroader topic: Its adaptations made Greek New Comedy a central part of Rome’s staged repertoire.

• SoliloquyRelated: Its direct audience addresses helped shape later theatrical speech conventions.

• Ben JonsonNarrower topic: Its character types and plotting supplied Jonson with major dramatic models.

• Livius AndronicusNarrower topic: Andronicus helped introduce staged drama into Roman literary culture.

• MenanderNarrower topic: Roman playwrights carried New Comedy’s domestic plots into a different theatrical culture.

• Roman tragedyCompared with: Comedy was tragedy’s principal dramatic counterpart in Roman literary culture.

• Stock characterNarrower topic: Roman comedy popularized recognizable roles such as the boastful soldier and clever slave.

• Comic novelNarrower topic: Its mistaken identities and stock characters supplied plots later adapted by comic fiction.

• The play within a playNarrower topic: Its prologues and theatrical self-reference helped shape later conventions for framing performances.

• Greek comedyNarrower topic: Roman playwrights reworked Greek comic plots and conventions for new audiences.

• Old ComedyNarrower topic: Roman comedy inherited Greek comic traditions, though not Old Comedy’s exact civic form.

• Old LatinBroader topic: Comedy became the best-preserved genre of Old Latin literature.

• Gnaeus NaeviusNarrower topic: Naevius’s comic plays belong to the genre’s earliest recorded phase.

• Caecilius StatiusNarrower topic: Caecilius helped shape this tradition during its formative period.