Phormio by Terence is a work with little substance. Phormio is the most interesting character, the rest are mostly one dimensional and leaden. Another play with mistaken identity at the core, but so slight when compared to the Greeks or later Comedy.Plautus' The Captives is a Roman comedy, but the Roman comedies pale in comparison to the work of Aristopanes. It does not have the humor of Aristophanes and if it is more of a tragi-comedy, it doe not have the seriousness, the gravitas of the Greek tragedies.
Intricate plots, Byzantine intrigues, but little drama or comedy. Shakespeare could take similiar material and work wonders with it. All in all, rather thin.
Czar