The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman ComedyIn recent decades literary approaches to drama have multiplied: new historical, intertextual, political, performative and metatheatrical, socio linguistic, gender driven, transgenre driven. New information has been amassed, sometimes by re examination of extant literary texts and material artifacts, at other times from new discoveries from the fields of archaeology, epigraphy, art history, and literary studies. The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman