Lysistrata
Author : Aristophanes
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 34,88 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Lysistrata (Fictitious character)
ISBN :
Author : Aristophanes
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 34,88 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Lysistrata (Fictitious character)
ISBN :
Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 27,76 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1410351742
A Study Guide for Aristophanes's "Lysistrata," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.
Author : Aristophanes
Publisher :
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 32,66 MB
Release : 1867
Category : Greek drama
ISBN :
Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 12,5 MB
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1625580681
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.
Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 23,26 MB
Release : 2003-01-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0141907010
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
Author : Allen Huffstutter
Publisher :
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 43,14 MB
Release : 2021-04-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781736900437
Author : Emily Klein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 45,18 MB
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1135087725
American adaptations of Aristophanes’ enduring comedy Lysistrata have used laughter to critique sex, war, and feminism for nearly a century. Unlike almost any other play circulating in contemporary theatres, Lysistrata has outlived its classical origins in 411 BCE and continues to shock and delight audiences to this day. The play’s "make love not war" message and bawdy humor render it endlessly appealing to college campuses, activist groups, and community theatres – so much so that none of Aristophanes’ plays are performed in the West as frequently as Lysistrata. Starting with the play’s first mainstream production in the U.S. in 1930, Emily B. Klein explores the varied iterations of Lysistrata that have graced the American stage, page, and screen since the Great Depression. These include the Federal Theatre’s 1936 Negro Repertory production, the 1955 movie musical The Second Greatest Sex and Spiderwoman Theater’s openly political Lysistrata Numbah!, as well as Douglas Carter Beane’s Broadway musical, Lysistrata Jones, and the international Lysistrata Project protests, which updated the classic in the contemporary context of the Iraq War. Although Aristophanes’ oeuvre has been the subject of much classical scholarship, Lysistrata has received little attention from feminist theatre scholars or performance theorists. In response, this book maps current debates over Lysistrata’s dubious feminist underpinnings and uses performance theory, cultural studies, and gender studies to investigate how new adaptations reveal the socio-political climates of their origins. Emily B. Klein is Assistant Professor of English and Drama at Saint Mary's College of California. Her work has appeared in Women and Performance and Frontiers as well as Political and Protest Theater After 9/11: Patriotic Dissent (Routledge, 2012).
Author :
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 38,63 MB
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1472519965
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.
Author : Sophie Treadwell
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 28,18 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781854592118
Frequently reprinted with the same ISBN, but with slightly differing bibliographic data.
Author : Laurialan Reitzammer
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 24,99 MB
Release : 2016-05-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 0299308200
A fresh examination of a marginalized women's festival that influenced Athenian art, drama, philosophy, and public institutions.