The AI response is more generic than a detailed answer to your question would be. It didn't address challenging patriarchal authority, reconfiguring gender dynamics, or employing carnivalesque elements.

Here is my proposed outline, which addresses the specific plan you mentioned in your question:

Research Outline: Shakespeare's Subversive Engagement with Roman Comedy

Thesis Statement

Shakespeare systematically subverts sentimental Roman comic conventions by undermining patriarchal authority, reconfiguring gender dynamics, and deploying carnivalesque elements—transforming inherited archetypes into vehicles for social critique that extend beyond Frye's formal analysis.

Research Context: Beyond Frye

• Frye established Shakespeare's debt to Roman structures but focused primarily on formal patterns and character types
• This research extends Frye by examining how Shakespeare actively subverts these archetypes through:
  • Political rather than merely formal transformation of comic conventions
  • Strategic deployment of gender inversion to challenge social hierarchies
  • Use of carnival elements as critique rather than mere comic relief

Methodology

• Archetypal analysis of Roman comic character types (senex iratus, clever servant, young lovers)
• Feminist and gender theory application
• Historical contextualization within Elizabethan social tensions

Structure

I. Challenging Patriarchal Authority

• Roman comedy's traditional reinforcement of paternal power
• Shakespeare's systematic undermining in:
  • The Merchant of Venice: Portia circumventing paternal will
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream: Theseus ultimately abandons Egeus's paternal rights
  • The Taming of the Shrew: Problematizing Baptista's Authority

II. Reconfiguring Gendered Power Dynamics

• Shakespeare's expansion of female agency through:
  • Cross-dressing heroines (As You Like It, Twelfth Night)
  • Intellectually dominant women (Much Ado About Nothing)
  • Female-directed comedy resolutions

III. Carnivalesque as Subversion

• Application of Bakhtinian Carnival Theory
• Analysis of:
  • Disguise as social critique
  • Status inversions
  • Liminal spaces as transformed power sites

IV. Case Study: Twelfth Night

• Detailed analysis demonstrating all three subversive strategies
• Viola/Cesario destabilizes both Roman archetypes and gender expectations

Scholarly Contribution

• Moves beyond Frye's formal analysis to examine political implications of Shakespeare's adaptations
• Demonstrates how Shakespeare's comedies contain proto-feminist elements while superficially adhering to Roman structures
• Integrates archetypal criticism with feminist and cultural materialist approaches