The Theatre of Aristophanes
Author | : Kenneth McLeish |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Greek drama (Comedy) |
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Author | : Kenneth McLeish |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Greek drama (Comedy) |
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Author | : Paul Cartledge |
Publisher | : Bristol Classical Press |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
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Author | : Aristophanes, |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2013-12-30 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 147250397X |
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.
Author | : Louis Eleazer Lord |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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Author | : John Williams White |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 90 |
Release | : 1891 |
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Author | : Aristophanes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1911 |
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Author | : Jeffrey Henderson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2010-03-30 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1135173761 |
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.
Author | : Aristophanes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 1916 |
Genre | : Lysistrata (Fictitious character) |
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Author | : Niall W. Slater |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2002-06-12 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780812236521 |
Spectator Politics is the first major study of metatheatre, or theatrically self-conscious performance, in Aristophanes. Using a reception-based performance criticism, Niall Slater elucidates the comic effectiveness of the earliest surviving comedies in the Western tradition. Slater demonstrates that Aristophanes employed metatheatre not simply to entertain but also to teach his audience how to read and interpret performance in other key public venues of the ancient democracy of Athens, such as performances in the political assembly and law courts. Aristophanes was, Slater contends, the first performance critic. Spectator Politics shows how Aristophanes' comedy served the Athenians by helping them to become active political participants, teaching them to see through deceptive performances, whether on stage or in the political sphere. His comedies use self-conscious performance to encourage the public to move out of the role of passive consumers of spectacle and to reengage the political process. Aristophanes' critique of performance prefigures much in the performance-dominated culture of the modern American political scene. Throughout, detailed readings of the original stagings illuminate the plays for today's audiences and performers, while Slater's cultural critique provides much for those interested in Athenian democracy and its lesson for the contemporary political scene. Spectator Politics offers a salutary demonstration of the power of art to expose and resist the performance powers of would-be demagogues.
Author | : Aristophanes |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 625 |
Release | : 1984-11-01 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0452007178 |
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. This volume features four celebrated masterpieces: Lysistrata, The Frogs, The Birds, and The Clouds, translated by three of the most distinguished translators and classicists of our time.