"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.