{{wiktionary|commentary|commentaries}} '''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 attributed to Julius Caesar * ''Commentaries'' of Ishodad of Merv, set of ninth-century Syriac treatises on the Bible * ''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 * ''Moralia in 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

== Religions ==

*Atthakatha, commentaries on the Pāli Canon in Theravāda Buddhism **Sub-commentaries (Theravāda), commentaries on the commentaries on the Pali Canon of Theravada Buddhism * Exegesis, a critical explanation or interpretation of a text, especially a religious text (e.g. a Bible commentary) * Tafsir, an exegesis, or commentary, of the Quran * List of biblical commentaries * Jewish commentaries on the Bible

==Other uses== * Published opinion piece material, in any of several forms: ** An editorial, written by the editorial staff or board of a newspaper, magazine, or other periodical ** Column (periodical), a regular feature of such a publication in which usually the same single writer offers advice, observation, or other commentary ** An op-ed, an opinion piece by an author unaffiliated with the publication ** Letters to the editor, written by readers of such a publication ** Posts made in the comments section of an online publication, serving a similar function to paper periodicals' letters to the editor * Commentary (philology), a line-by-line or even word-by-word explication (and usually translation) of a text * Audio commentary track for DVDs and Blu-Rays – an additional audio track that plays in real-time with the video material, and comments on that 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 * Criticism, the practice of judging the merits and faults of something or someone * Textual Criticism, the production of scientifically reliable editions of historical texts * ''Commentary! The Musical'', the musical commentary accompanying ''Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog'' * Commentary or narration, the words in a documentary film * 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 ** Public commentary received by governmental and other bodies, e.g. in response to proposals, reports, etc.

==See also== * Commentry, a place in central France * Comment (disambiguation) * ''Commentaire'', a French quarterly * Reaction video, commentaries in video format

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