Fabula togata

A fabula togata is a Latin comedy in a Roman setting, in existence since at least the second century B.C. Lucius Afranius and Titus Quinctius Atta are known to have written "fabulas togatas". It is also treated as an expression that functioned as the overall description of all Roman types of drama in accordance with a distinction between Roman "toga" and Greek "pallium". There are recorded sources that cite how this drama could be obscene and moralistic. 
By mid-second century BCE the "fabula togata" become one of the two types of drama that constituted a bifurcated Roman comedy along with "fabula palliata". The "fabula togata" was distinguished from the "palliata" primarily by its use of Roman or Italian characters, transferring the comic situations of the bourgeois "palliata" to the lower-class citizens of the country towns of Italy. The "palliata" was based on originals of Greek New Comedy, tragedies from Attic sources as well as the grand dramatization of Rome's past.
There is no existing complete "fabula togata" but there are surviving fragments that indicate aspects of the creative practice.