Aristophanes Wasps
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Author | : Kenneth Rothwell |
Publisher | : Oxford Greek and Latin College |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2019-01-14 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0190907401 |
Aristophanes' Wasps (422 B.C.) is an entertaining comedy that plunges us into the life of a family in classical Athens, while treating themes that readers of any time and place can appreciate. A father and son argue about politics, household servants try to please their master, a disruptive gang of the father's friends decide to intervene, a dog becomes a lightning-rod for his antics in the kitchen, attempts are made at reform and reconciliation, and it all ends with a drinking party that goes disastrously wrong. The father, Philocleon, and his friends, the chorus of wasp-like old men for whom the play is named, are some of the great creations of comic drama. The characters of the Wasps make constant references to the everyday world they are living in: its political demagogues, court system, religious rituals, social niceties, class distinctions, diseases, clothes, food, toilets, paychecks, geography, weather, household items, literary and mythological allusions, military experiences, and much more. These references give the play its immediacy, but their unfamiliarity to modern students can pose a challenge. This edition provides a full introduction devoted to the political, social, and literary background of the play, as well as notes to the text explaining historical details.
Author | : Aristophanes |
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Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 1894 |
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Author | : Aristophanes |
Publisher | : Aris and Phillips Classical Te |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0856682136 |
Wasps was first produced at the Lenaea festival of 422 BC. The play is at once a political satire and also, like Clouds and the lost Banqueters, a comedy on the theme of the conflict of generations. The play follows the efforts of a mischievous and mercurial old man to escape the control of a stern and heavy son.
Author | : Aristophanes |
Publisher | : Hackett Publishing |
Total Pages | : 486 |
Release | : 1998-01-01 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780872203600 |
Presents translations of three satirical plays along with information on staging, history, religious practice, myths, and issues raised by each play.
Author | : Aristophanes |
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Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 1875 |
Genre | : Greek drama (Comedy) |
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Author | : Aristophanes |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780140441529 |
In 'The Wasps' an old-fashioned father and his loose-living son come to blows--and end up in court; elsewhere Aristophanes milks the clash of generations for all it is worth by sending up the purveyors of new ideas like Socrates and Euripides (the most controversial of the great tragedians). In 'The Poet and the Women' Euripides, accused of misogyny, gets a relative in drag to infiltrate an all-woman festival and find out what revenge is being plotted, with predictable bawdy results. In 'The Frogs, ' written in the darkest days of the Peloponnesian War, the god Dionysus descends to the Underworld to find a poet to bring back: does Athens in her hour of danger need the traditional wisdom of Aeschylus or the brilliant modern cleverness of Euripides? As the great debate proceeds, Aristophanes combines parody with slapstick and political discussion with pantomime high spirit, to produce a hilarious and unique masterpiece.
Author | : Aristophanes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 2012-10-19 |
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ISBN | : 9781480137653 |
Xanthias I am teaching myself how to rest; I have been awake and on watch the whole night.Sosias So you want to earn trouble for your ribs, eh? Don't you know what sort of animal we are guarding here?Xanthias Aye indeed! but I want to put my cares to sleep for a while.[He falls asleep again.]
Author | : Aristophanes |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 54 |
Release | : 2012-11-01 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1625580967 |
Wasps satirizes Athenian enthusiasm for jury service and the law courts as well as the city's susceptibility to demagogues.
Author | : Aristophanes |
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Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1835 |
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Author | : Aristophanes |
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Release | : 2004-06 |
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ISBN | : 9781419287367 |
XANTHIAS (turning to the audience): Come, I must explain the matter to the spectators. But first a few words of preamble: expect nothing very high-flown from us, nor any jests stolen from Megara; we have no slaves, who throw baskets of nuts to the spectators, nor any Heracles to be robbed of his dinner, nor does Euripides get loaded with contumely.