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Book Lysistrata

Download or read book Lysistrata written by Aristophanes and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lysistrata and Other Plays

Download or read book Lysistrata and Other Plays written by Aristophanes and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2003-01-30 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Book The comedies of Aristophanes  Lysistrata  The thesmophoriazusae

Download or read book The comedies of Aristophanes Lysistrata The thesmophoriazusae written by Aristophanes and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Looking at Lysistrata

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : A&C Black
  • Release : 2013-11-01
  • ISBN : 1472519965
  • Pages : 183 pages

Download or read book Looking at Lysistrata written by and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Aristophanes' Lysistrata, the women of Athens, fed up with the war against Sparta, go on a sex strike and barricade themselves into the acropolis to persuade their husbands to vote against the war. It is the most often performed of all Aristophanes' comedies. It is also, perhaps, the most misunderstood. This collection of essays by eight leading academics - written for sixth-form students and the general public alike - sets the play firmly in its historical and social context, while exploring Aristophanes' purpose in writing it and considering the responses of modern audiences and directors. The collection has been assembled and edited by David Stuttard, whose energetic new performing version of the play is included in this volume. Contributors include: Alan Beale; Edith Hall; Lorna Hardwick; James Morwood; Martin Revermann; James Robson; Alan H. Sommerstein; Michael Walton.

Book Lysistrata

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  • Author : Aristophanes
  • Publisher : Courier Corporation
  • Release : 1994-10-20
  • ISBN : 0486282252
  • Pages : 65 pages

Download or read book Lysistrata written by Aristophanes and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1994-10-20 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic comedy — from the 5th century BC — concerns the vow of Greek women to withhold sex from their husbands until the men agree to end the disastrous wars between Athens and Sparta. An exuberant battle of the sexes with underlying anti-war theme.

Book LYSISTRATA

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  • Author : ARISTOPHANES
  • Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
  • Release : 1925-01-01
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 78 pages

Download or read book LYSISTRATA written by ARISTOPHANES and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 1925-01-01 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adapted from Aristophanes. Some doubling is possible.

Book The Comedies of Aristophanes  Lysistrata  The thesmophoriazusae

Download or read book The Comedies of Aristophanes Lysistrata The thesmophoriazusae written by Aristophanes and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Four Comedies

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  • Author : Aristophanes
  • Publisher : University of Michigan Press
  • Release : 1969
  • ISBN : 9780472061525
  • Pages : 434 pages

Download or read book Four Comedies written by Aristophanes and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of Aristophanes' famous comedy plays. Each play includes notes and an introduction.

Book The comedies of Aristophanes  The Lysistrata  The ecclesiazusae

Download or read book The comedies of Aristophanes The Lysistrata The ecclesiazusae written by Aristophanes and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Aristophanes  Four Plays  Clouds  Birds  Lysistrata  Women of the Assembly

Download or read book Aristophanes Four Plays Clouds Birds Lysistrata Women of the Assembly written by Aristophanes and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capturing the antic outrageousness and lyrical brilliance of antiquity’s greatest comedies, Aaron Poochigian’s Aristophanes: Four Plays brings these classic dramas to vivid life for a twenty-first century audience. The citizens of ancient Athens enjoyed a freedom of speech as broad as our own. This freedom, parrhesia, the right to say what one pleased, how and when one pleased, and to whom, had no more fervent champion than the brilliant fifth-century comic playwright Aristophanes. His plays, immensely popular with the Athenian public, were frequently crude, even obscene. He ridiculed the great and the good of the city, showing up their hypocrisy and arrogance in ways that went far beyond the standards of good taste, securing the ire (and sometimes the retaliation) of his powerful targets. He showed his contemporaries, and he teaches us now, that when those in power act obscenely, patriotic obscenity is a fitting response. Aristophanes’s satirical masterpieces were also surpassingly virtuosic works of poetry. The metrical variety of his plays has always thrilled readers who can access the original Greek, but until now, English translations have failed to capture their lyrical genius. Aaron Poochigian, the first poet-classicist to tackle these plays in a generation, brings back to life four of Aristophanes’s most entertaining, wickedly crude, and frequently beautiful lyric comedies—the pinnacle of his comic art: · Clouds, a play famous for its caricature of antiquity’s greatest philosopher, Socrates; · Lysistrata, in which a woman convinces her female compatriots to withhold sex from their warmongering lovers unless they negotiate peace; · Birds, in which feathered creatures build a great city and become like gods; · and Women of the Assembly, Aristophones’s most revolutionary play, which inverts the norms of gender and power. Poochigian’s new rendering of these comic masterpieces finally gives contemporary readers a sense of the subversive pleasure Aristophones’s original audiences felt when they were first performed on the Athenian stage.

Book Three Plays by Aristophanes

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  • Author : Jeffrey Henderson
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2010-03-30
  • ISBN : 1135173761
  • Pages : 268 pages

Download or read book Three Plays by Aristophanes written by Jeffrey Henderson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These three plays by the great comic playwright Aristophanes (c. 446-386 BCE), the well-known Lysistrata, and the less familiar Women at the Thesmophoria and Assemblywomen, are the earliest surviving portrayals of contemporary women in the European literary tradition. These plays provide a unique glimpse of women not only in their familiar domestic roles but also in relation to household and city, religion and government, war and peace, theater and festival, and, of course, to men. This freshly revised edition presents, for the first time in a single volume, all three plays in faithful modern translations that preserve intact Aristophanes’ blunt and often obscene language, sparkling satire, political provocation, and beguiling fantasy. Alongside the translations are ample introductions and notes covering the politically engaged genre of Aristophanic comedy in general and issues of sex and gender in particular, which have been fully updated since the first edition in light of recent scholarship. An appendix contains fragments of lost plays of Aristophanes that also featured women, and an up-to-date bibliography provides guidance for further exploration. In addition to their timeless humor and biting satire, the plays are unique and invaluable documents in the history of western sexuality and gender, and they offer strikingly prescient speculations about the social and political future of the female sex.

Book The Comedies of Aristophanes  Lysistrata

Download or read book The Comedies of Aristophanes Lysistrata written by Aristophanes and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lysistrata  The Women s Festival  and Frogs

Download or read book Lysistrata The Women s Festival and Frogs written by Aristophanes and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-09-14 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most readers nowadays encounter the plays of Aristophanes in the classroom, not the theater. Yet the "father of comedy" wrote his plays for the stage, not as literary texts. Many English translations of the plays were written decades ago, and in their outdated language they fail to capture the dramatic liveliness of the original comedies. Now Michael Ewans offers new and lively translations of three of Aristophanes' finest plays: Lysistrata, The Women's Festival, and Frogs. While remaining faithful to the original Greek, these translations are accessible to a modern audience—and actable on stage. Here readers will discover—in all its uncensored glory—the often raw sexual and scatological language Aristophanes used in his fantastically inventive works. This edition also contains all that a reader needs to understand the plays within a broader context. In his comprehensive introduction, Ewans discusses political and social aspects of Aristophanic comedy, the conventions of Greek theater, and the challenges of translating ancient Greek into modern English. In his theatrical commentaries—a unique feature of this edition—Ewans draws on his own experience of directing the plays in a replica of the original theater. In scene-by-scene analysis, he provides insight into the major issues each play raises in performance. The volume concludes with two glossaries—one of proper names and the other of Greek terms—as well as a bibliography that includes the most recent scholarship on Aristophanic comedy.

Book The Comedies of Aristophanes

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  • Author : Aristophanes
  • Publisher : Palala Press
  • Release : 2016-04-25
  • ISBN : 9781354533130
  • Pages : 404 pages

Download or read book The Comedies of Aristophanes written by Aristophanes and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-04-25 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Lysistrata

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  • Author : Aristophanes
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
  • Release : 2013-03-05
  • ISBN : 9781482696691
  • Pages : 80 pages

Download or read book Lysistrata written by Aristophanes and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lysistrata is one of the few surviving plays written by Aristophanes. Originally performed in classical Athens in 411 BC, it is a comic account of one woman's extraordinary mission to end The Peloponnesian War. Lysistrata persuades the women of Greece to withhold sexual privileges from their husbands and lovers as a means of forcing the men to negotiate peace — a strategy, however, that inflames the battle between the sexes. The play is notable for being an early exposé of sexual relations in a male-dominated society. The dramatic structure represents a shift away from the conventions of Old Comedy, a trend typical of the author's career. It was produced in the same year as Thesmophoriazusae, another play with a focus on gender-based issues, just two years after Athens' catastrophic defeat in the Sicilian Expedition.