The Birds and Other Plays
$22.89
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
29 March 2004
Summary
Aristophanes: Comedy in the Clouds
The plays in this volume showcase Aristophanes’ trademark bawdy comedy and dazzling verbal agility.
In THE BIRDS, two frustrated Athenians join the birds to build the utopian city of ‘Much Cuckoo in the Clouds’.
THE KNIGHTS is a venomous satire on Cleon, a prominent Athenian demagogue.
THE ASSEMBLY WOMEN deals with the battle of the sexes as the women of Athens infiltrate the all-male Assembly in disguise.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140449518 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140449515 |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
| Author: | Aristophanes, David Barrett, Alan H. Sommerstein |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 29 March 2004 |
| Weight: | 237g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 15mm |
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About The Author
Aristophanes
Little is known about Aristophanes’ life (c. 445BC-c.386BC), but there is a portrait of him in Plato’s Symposium. His first comedy was produced when he was 20 and he wrote 40 plays in the course of his life. David Barrett has translated a number of ancient Greek texts for Penguin Classics.
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