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These include the comedies of Aristophanes and Menander, the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, and the Roman adaptations of Plautus, Terence and Seneca. In total, there are eighty-three mostly extant plays, forty-six from ancient Greece and thirty-seven from ancient Rome. Furthermore, there are seven lost plays with extensive ...
In Ancient Greece during the time of New Comedy, from which Plautus drew so much of his inspiration, there were permanent theaters that catered to the audience as well as the actor. The greatest playwrights of the day had quality facilities in which to present their work and, in a general sense, there was always enough public support to keep ...
Ancient Rome portal This category contains writers who lived during the period of the Roman Republic and/or the Roman Empire . See also Category:Writers in Latin .
Ancient Roman Theatre of Orange, South of France, 2008. The early drama that emerged was very similar to the drama in Greece. Rome had engaged in a number of wars, some of which had taken place in areas of Italy, in which Greek culture had been a great influence. [8] Examples of this include the First Punic War (264-241 BC) in Sicily. [8]
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Ancient Greek comedy, as practiced by Aristophanes and Menander; Ancient Roman comedy, as practiced by Plautus and Terence; Burlesque, from Music hall and Vaudeville to Performance art; Citizen comedy, as practiced by Thomas Dekker, Thomas Middleton and Ben Jonson; Clowns such as Richard Tarlton, William Kempe, and Robert Armin
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Roman comedy is mainly represented by two playwrights, Plautus (writing between c.205 and 184 BC) and Terence (writing c.166-160 BC). The works of other Latin playwrights such as Livius Andronicus, Naevius, Ennius, and Caecilius Statius are now lost except for a few lines quoted in other authors. 20 plays of Plautus survive complete, and 6 of Terence.