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Aristophanes Four Plays Clouds Birds Lysistrata Women Of The Assembly by Aristophanes
Category: Poetry & Plays
Aristophanes - Frogs and Other Plays - A New Translation by Aristophanes; Stephen Halliwell (Editor)
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama which flourished in Athens during the fifth century BC. One of the most original playwrights in the entire Western tradition, his comedies are remarkable for their brilliant combinationof fantasy a ...Show more
Aristophanes Plays: 2 - Wasps; Clouds; Birds; Festival Time; Frogs by Aristophanes; Kenneth McLeish (Translator)
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Methuen Classical Greek Dramatists Ser.
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 ...Show more
Classical Comedy by Menander, Aristophanes, Aristophanes Aristophanes, Plautus, Terence
Category: Classic Fiction
From the fifth to the second century BC, innovative comedy drama flourished in Greece and Rome. This collection brings together the greatest works of Classical comedy, with two early Greek plays: Aristophanes' bold, imaginative "Birds", and Menander's "The Girl from Samos", which explores popular contem ...Show more
Four Plays: Aristophanes The Clouds,The Birds,Lysistrata & The Frogs by Aristophanes
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Meridian classics
Classic Greek plays offer a caricature of Socrates, a flawed utopia, a clever plan to gain peace, and a debate between deceased playwrights.
Frogs and Other Plays by Aristophanes
Category: Classic Fiction
Marrying deft social commentary to a rich, earthy comedy, the three comedies collected in Aristophanes' "The Frogs and Other Plays" offers a unique insight into one of the most turbulent periods in Ancient Greek history. This "Penguin Classics" edition is translated by David Barrett with revisions, an i ...Show more
Frogs and Other Plays : Wasp ; Women at the Thesmophoria ; Frogs by Aristophanes
Category: Plays
Lysistrata - Illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley by Aristophanes; Samuel Smith (Translator); Aubrey Beardsley (Illustrator)
Category: Classic Fiction
A Classic Available Again Aristophanes was the greatest writer of ancient Athenian "old comedy," known for its satires of contemporary life and for its broad, often obscene humor. "Lysistrata" was first produced in 411 BC, when the Peloponnesian War had been devastating Greece for 20 years. Most people ...Show more
Lysistrata and Other Plays by Aristophanes
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Three plays by the comedian of Ancient Greece Writing at the time of political and social crisis in Athens, Aristophanes was an eloquent yet bawdy challenger to the demagogue and the sophist. The Achanians is a plea for peace set against the background of the long war with Sparta. In Lysistrata a band ...Show more
The Birds and Other Plays by Aristophanes
Category: Film & Tv | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Offering a window into the world of ordinary Athenians, Aristophanes' The Birds and Other Plays is a timeless set of comedies, combining witty satire and raucous slapstick to wonderful effect. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the Greek by David Barrett and Alan H. Sommerstein. The plays ...Show more
The Frogs : Little Black Classic by Aristophanes
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'Ko-ax, ko-ax, ko-ax!Now listen, you musical twerps,I don't give a damn for your burps!' A biting comedy from the great Ancient Greek playwright. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of ...Show more