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Roman drama first started in 240 BC and had their first theater in 4th century BC. Before they had a theater they did were festival performances of street theater and acrobatics, to the staging of Plautus's broadly appealing situation comedies, to the high-style, verbally elaborate tragedies of Seneca. The Roman comedies that have survived are all comedies based on Greek subjects and come from two dramatists: Titus Maccius Plautus (Plautus) and Publius Terentius Afer (Terence). By editing the Greeks work, the Roman comic dramatists abolished the role of the chorus in dividing the drama into episodes, and introduced musical accompaniment to its dialogue (between one-third of the dialogue in the comedies of Plautus and two-thirds in those of Terence). Plautus, the more popular out of the two, wrote between 205 and 184 BC and twenty of his comedies survive, of which his farces are best known; he was admired for the creativeness of his dialogue and his use of a variety of poetic meters.