KnowraRoman comedyLinked fromLinked fromThe 16 pages that link to Roman comedy, each with the reason it gives.All 16Broader topic 3Related 2Narrower topic 10Compared with 1Ben 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.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.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.