Chronopoulos, Stylianos, and Christian Orth, eds. 2015. Fragmente einer Geschichte der griechischen Komödie/Fragmentary history of Greek Comedy. Heidelberg, Germany: Verlag Antike.
Three contributions discuss issue of periodization from different perspective: Zimmermann (pp. 9–15) and Nesselrath (pp. 16–34) deal with ancient scholarship on Greek Comedy, Henderson (pp. 146–158) considers comic texts.
Csapo, Eric. 2000. From Aristophanes to Menander? Genre transformation in Greek Comedy. In Matrices of genre: Authors, canons, and society. Edited by Mary Depew and Dirk Obbink, 115–133. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press.
Argues against the traditional view of the development of Greek Comedy and suggests that different comic styles coexisted in the 5th century as in later periods.
Green, J. R. 1994. Theatre in ancient Greek society. London: Routledge.
Major study of the archaeology of Greek theater, from the Archaic period until Late Antiquity. It reconstructs the role of theater across the ancient world, shedding light on both its reception and its influence. For artifacts showing the early emergence of non-satirical comedies, see especially pp. 34–38, 63–88.
Henderson, Jeffrey. 2013. A brief history of Athenian political comedy (ca. 440-ca. 300). Transactions of the American Philological Association 143.2: 249–262.
Discusses the production pattern of political comedies, showing that this type of play was infrequent and staged only under specific circumstances in the 5th as in the 4th century.
Koster, Willem J. W. 1975. Scholia in Aristophanem. Pars. I: Prolegomena de Comoedia. Scholia in Acharnenses, Equites, Nubes. Fasc. IA: Prolegomena de Comoedia. Groningen, The Netherlands: Bouma’s Boekhuis B.V.
Collects all the prolegomena (“treatises”) related to the history of Attic Comedy in both Greek and Latin. They are generally arranged in a chronological order: ancient and Byzantine material first, then the works by Tzetses (12th century) and Demetrius Triclinius (early 14th century).
Luraghi, Nino. 2012. Commedia e politica tra Demostene e Cremonide. In La commedia greca e la storia. Edited by Franca Perusino, 337–361. Pisa, Italy: Edizioni ETS.
Discusses political comedy in the late 4th and early 3rd centuries and includes important remarks on two “New Comedy” poets, Philippides and Archedicus.
Papachrysostomou, Athina. 2012–2013. Continuity and change in the comic genre or how it all ended up with Menander: The case of “sub-trends. Ordia prima 11–12:156–189.
Identifies a series of “sub-trends” shared by Greek comedies, arguing for continuity in the history of the genre.
Sidwell, Keith. 2000. From old to middle to new? Aristotle’s poetics and the history of Athenian Comedy. In The rivals of Aristophanes: Studies in Athenian Old Comedy. Edited by David Harvey and John Wilkins, 247–258. London: Duckworth.
Reconsiders the ancient sources for the division of Greek Comedy into Old, Middle, and New, arguing that Middle Comedy was a later invention and that what we call Old and New Comedy were already distinct from each other by the end of the 5th century.