Four Plays by Aristophanes: The Birds; The Clouds; The Frogs; Lysistrata
The Birds; The Clouds; The Frogs; Lysistrata
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- Paperback
624 pages
- Release Date
1 November 1984
Summary
Whether his target is the war between the sexes or his fellow playwright Euripides, Aristophanes is the most important Greek comic dramatist–and one of the greatest comic playwrights of all time. His writing–at once bawdy and delicate–brilliantly fuses serious political satire with pyrotechnical bombast, establishing the tradition of comedy as high art. His messages are as timely and relevant today as they were in ancient Greece, and his plays still provoke laughter–and thought.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780452007178 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0452007178 |
| Author: | Aristophanes |
| Publisher: | Plume Books |
| Imprint: | Plume |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 624 |
| Release Date: | 1 November 1984 |
| Weight: | 522g |
| Dimensions: | 38mm x 135mm x 203mm |
| Series: | Meridian classics |
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Aristophanes
ARISTOPHANES, the most famous comic dramatist of ancient Greece, was born an Athenian citizen in about 445 B.C. Forty-four plays have been attributed to Aristophanes; eleven of these have survived. His plays are the only extant representatives of Greek Old Comedy, a dramatic form whose conventions made it inevitable that the author would comment on the political and social issues of fifth-century Athens. This Aristophanes did so well that Plato, asked by the tyrant of Syracuse for an analysis of Athenians, sent a copy of Aristophanes’ plays in reply.<br>   &
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