Commentary

Commentary or commentaries may refer to:

Publications

• Commentary (magazine), a U.S. public affairs journal, founded in 1945 and formerly published by the American Jewish Committee
• Caesar's Commentaries (disambiguation), a number of works by or attributed to Julius Caesar
• Commentaries on the Laws of England, a 1769 treatise on the common law of England by Sir William Blackstone
• Commentaries on Living, a series of books by Jiddu Krishnamurti originally published in 1956, 1958 and 1960
• Commentary on Job, a sixth-century treatise by Saint Gregory
• Commentary of Zuo, one of the earliest Chinese works of narrative history, covering the period from 722 to 468 BCE
• Commentaries, a work attributed to Taautus

Other uses

• Commentary (philology), a line-by-line or even word-by-word explication of a text
• Audio commentary track for DVDs, an additional audio track that plays in real time with video and comments on the video
• Sports commentary or play-by-play, a running description of a game or event in real time, usually during a live broadcast
  • Color commentary, supplementing play-by-play commentary, often filling in any time when play is not in progress
• Atthakatha, commentaries on the Pāli Canon in Theravāda Buddhism
• Criticism, the practice of judging the merits and faults of something or someone
• Commentary! The Musical, the musical commentary accompanying Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
• Commentary or narration, the words in a documentary film
• Exegesis or Bible commentary, a critical explanation or interpretation of a text, especially a religious text
• Literary criticism, the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature
  • Close reading in literary criticism, the careful, sustained interpretation of a brief passage of text
• Political criticism or political commentary, criticism that is specific of or relevant to politics

See also

• Commentry, a place in central France
• Comment (disambiguation)
• List of biblical commentaries
• Jewish commentaries on the Bible