Aristophanes Plays: 2

Aristophanes Plays: 2 PDF Author: Aristophanes,
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 147250397X
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 432

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Reissue of Aristophanes' most famous plays in the Methuen Classical Greek Dramatists series Aristophanes is the oldest comedic writer in Western literature. Although only eleven of the some forty plays he wrote survive, his unique blend of slapstick, fantasy, bawy and political satire provide us with a vivid picture of the ancient Athenians - their social mores, their beliefs and their exuberant sense of occasion. Wasps is a lawcourt satire, Clouds a lighthearted look at education, Birds a search for the perfect society, Festival Time a feminist trial of Euripides and Frogs a celebration of and debate around the theatre.Aristophanes was a unique writer for the comic stage as well as one of the most revealing about the society for which he wrote.

Aristophanes Plays: 2

Aristophanes Plays: 2 PDF Author: Aristophanes,
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 147250397X
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 432

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Book Description
Reissue of Aristophanes' most famous plays in the Methuen Classical Greek Dramatists series Aristophanes is the oldest comedic writer in Western literature. Although only eleven of the some forty plays he wrote survive, his unique blend of slapstick, fantasy, bawy and political satire provide us with a vivid picture of the ancient Athenians - their social mores, their beliefs and their exuberant sense of occasion. Wasps is a lawcourt satire, Clouds a lighthearted look at education, Birds a search for the perfect society, Festival Time a feminist trial of Euripides and Frogs a celebration of and debate around the theatre.Aristophanes was a unique writer for the comic stage as well as one of the most revealing about the society for which he wrote.

Aristophanes Plays: 2

Aristophanes Plays: 2 PDF Author: Aristophanes,
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1472503961
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 341

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Reissue of Aristophanes' most famous plays in the Methuen Classical Greek Dramatists series Aristophanes is the oldest comedic writer in Western literature. Although only eleven of the some forty plays he wrote survive, his unique blend of slapstick, fantasy, bawy and political satire provide us with a vivid picture of the ancient Athenians - their social mores, their beliefs and their exuberant sense of occasion. Wasps is a lawcourt satire, Clouds a lighthearted look at education, Birds a search for the perfect society, Festival Time a feminist trial of Euripides and Frogs a celebration of and debate around the theatre.Aristophanes was a unique writer for the comic stage as well as one of the most revealing about the society for which he wrote.

Frogs and Other Plays

Frogs and Other Plays PDF Author: Aristophanes
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141935774
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 337

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The master of ancient Greek comic drama, Aristophanes combined slapstick, humour and cheerful vulgarity with acute political observations. In The Frogs, written during the Peloponnesian War, Dionysus descends to the Underworld to bring back a poet who can help Athens in its darkest hour, and stages a great debate to help him decide between the traditional wisdom of Aeschylus and the brilliant modernity of Euripides. The clash of generations and values is also the object of Aristophanes’ satire in The Wasps, in which an old-fashioned father and his loose-living son come to blows and end up in court. And in The Poet and the Women, Euripides, accused of misogyny, persuades a relative to infiltrate an all-women festival to find out whether revenge is being plotted against him.

Plays 2

Plays 2 PDF Author: Aristophanes
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ISBN: 9780435669102
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Languages : en
Pages :

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Lysistrata

Lysistrata PDF Author: Aristophanes
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Category : Lysistrata (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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Aristophanes

Aristophanes PDF Author: Aristophanes
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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A volume in the acclaimed Penn Greek Drama Series containing Wasps, Lysistrata, Frogs, and The Sexual Congress.

Aristophanes, 2

Aristophanes, 2 PDF Author: Aristophanes
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812216844
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 378

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A volume in the acclaimed Penn Greek Drama Series containing Wasps, Lysistrata, Frogs, and The Sexual Congress.

Aristophanes

Aristophanes PDF Author: Aristophanes
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Lysistrata and Other Plays

Lysistrata and Other Plays PDF Author: Aristophanes
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141907010
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 409

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The Acharnians/The Clouds/Lysistrata 'We women have the salvation of Greece in our hands' Writing at a time of political and social crisis in Athens, the ancient Greek comic playwright Aristophanes was an eloquent, yet bawdy, challenger to the demagogue and the sophist. In Lysistrata and The Acharnians, two pleas for an end to the long war between Athens and Sparta, a band of women on a sex strike and a lone peasant respectively defeat the political establishment. The darker comedy of The Clouds satirizes Athenian philosophers, Socrates in particular, and reflects the uncertainties of a generation in which all traditional religious and ethical beliefs were being challenged. Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Alan H. Sommerstein

The Comedies of Aristophanes;

The Comedies of Aristophanes; PDF Author: Pierre Brumoy
Publisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781378053928
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 342

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