When the Roman playwrights took their cues from the comedies of the Greek playwright Plautus, the new Roman comedy would spread across Europe, particularly in Spain and France. A style that replaced and adapted the writings of Plautus and Terrence for Roman audiences and the roman context, its performances were increasingly vulgar, pervasive with "drunkeness, greed, adultery and horseplay, or lavish acrobatic spectables featureing scantily clad dancers." The roman theatre began to lose respecability and thereby its credibility, and was eventually forbidden as an art. Which wans't too big of a deal, drama in the Empire was thought to be better read than performed anyways.

By the fourteenth century, theatre emerged again in humble strides through travelling performers and jesters, dancers, mimics, acrobats and circus people. And over time, efforts were made to reintergrate it back into the church, where a more traditional theatre strucutre would regain its popularity. Theatre would then mostly put on "liturgical" plays, re-enactments of biblical stories, Once Theatre began to, again, move out of the church, suppposedly due to overcrowding? The Byzantine Theatre became much more complex, but exciting and very dramatic. Performances were elaborate and flamboyant, so was its stage design, props and and "splendidly embroidered" costume design.

Medieval Byzantine Theatre would die out by the fifteenth century to be replaced with Renaissance Theatre.