The Birds And Other Plays
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Author | : Aristophanes |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780192824080 |
Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, the exuberant, satirical form of festival drama which flourished during the heyday of classical Athenian culture in the fifth century BC. His plays are characterized by extraordinary combinations of fantasy and satire,sophistication and vulgarity, formality and freedom. Birds is an escapist fantasy in which two dissatisfied Athenians, in defiance of men and gods, bring about a city of birds, the eponymous Cloudcuckooland. In Lysistrata the heroine of the play organizes a sex-strike and the wives of Athens occupythe Akropolis in an attempt to restore peace to the city. The main source of comedy in the Assembly-Women is a similar usurpation of male power as the women attempt to reform Athenian society along utopian-communist lines. Finally, Wealth is Aristophanes' last surviving comedy, in which Ploutos, thegod of wealth is cured of his blindness and the remarkable social consequences of his new discrimination are exemplified. This is the first complete verse translation of Aristophanes' comedies to appear for more than twenty-five years and makes freshly available one of the most remarkable comic playwrights in the entire Western tradition, complete with an illuminating introduction including play by play analysis anddetailed notes.
Author | : Aristophanes |
Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2008-11-28 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 1427073260 |
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Author | : Aristophanes |
Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2008-09-27 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1427073252 |
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Author | : Aristophanes |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2007-03-01 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0141935774 |
The master of ancient Greek comic drama, Aristophanes combined slapstick, humour and cheerful vulgarity with acute political observations. In The Frogs, written during the Peloponnesian War, Dionysus descends to the Underworld to bring back a poet who can help Athens in its darkest hour, and stages a great debate to help him decide between the traditional wisdom of Aeschylus and the brilliant modernity of Euripides. The clash of generations and values is also the object of Aristophanes’ satire in The Wasps, in which an old-fashioned father and his loose-living son come to blows and end up in court. And in The Poet and the Women, Euripides, accused of misogyny, persuades a relative to infiltrate an all-women festival to find out whether revenge is being plotted against him.
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Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | : 318 |
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ISBN | : 1427052603 |
Author | : Aristophanes |
Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2008-11-28 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 1427073244 |
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Author | : Aristophanes |
Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2008-11-28 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 142707321X |
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Author | : Aristophanes |
Publisher | : The Floating Press |
Total Pages | : 133 |
Release | : 2010-06-01 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1775418006 |
The Birds is a comic play by the Greek playwright Aristophanes. It garnered awards in 141 BC when it was first performed, and continues to be critically received today. A middle-aged Athenian convinces the world's birds to build a new city between the heavens and the earth. This position fortuitously allows them to intercept all communication of gods and men. The Athenian is transformed into a bird-like figure and with the help of his winged friends - and others - he replaces Zeus as the master of heaven and earth.
Author | : Aristophanes |
Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2008-11-28 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 1427073295 |
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Author | : Josef Topol |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2007-09-19 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1469124122 |
This is a book of five plays by Josef Topol translated into English, only two of which have been produced in the USA. Josef Topol and Vaclav Havel are considered the best Czech living playwrights. The five plays chosen for this volume are representative of Topols chamber plays, dealing with such universal themes as youth, love and parting, life and death in language that is very contemporary and often incredibly poetic. The title of the book The Voices of Birds was chosen because it is the last play Josef Topol has written and indicates that the playwrights newer works are included.