Eight Comedies of Aristophanes
Author : Aristophanes
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Page : 474 pages
File Size : 27,62 MB
Release : 1867
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Author : Aristophanes
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Page : 474 pages
File Size : 27,62 MB
Release : 1867
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Page : 502 pages
File Size : 20,26 MB
Release : 1867
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Author : Aristophanes
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Page : 64 pages
File Size : 18,31 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Lysistrata (Fictitious character)
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Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 14,70 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 : Aristophanes
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 11,55 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Drama
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New English versions of Lysistrata, The Frogs, The Birds, and Ladies' Day. "Thanks to Dudley Fitts...we can appreciate Aristophanes' vigor, his robust style, his scorching wit, his earthy humor, his devotion to honesty and his poetic imagination" (Brooks Atkinson, New York Times). Index.
Author : Aristophanes
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Page : 794 pages
File Size : 17,7 MB
Release : 1820
Category : Greek drama (Comedy)
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Author : Aristophanes
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Page : 480 pages
File Size : 49,52 MB
Release : 1867
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Author : Aristophanes
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Page : 436 pages
File Size : 18,74 MB
Release : 1902
Category : Greek drama (Comedy)
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Author : Andreas Willi
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 10,70 MB
Release : 2002-10-03
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0199245479
The contributions to this volume illustrate how the linguistic study of Greek comedy can deepen our knowledge of the intricate connections between the dramatic texts and their literary and socio-cultural environment. Topics discussed include the relationship of comedy and iambus, the world of Doric comedy in Sicily, figures of speech and obscene vocabulary in Aristophanes, comic elements in tragedy, language and cultural identity in fifth-century Athens, linguistic characterizationin Middle Comedy, the textual transmission of New Comedy, and the interaction of language and dramatic technique in Menander. Research in these topics and in related areas is reviewed in an extensive bibliographical essay.While the main focus is on comedy, the diversity of the approaches adopted (including narratology, pragmatics, lexicology, dialectology, sociolinguistics, and textual criticism) ensures that much of the work applies to different genres and is relevant also to linguists and literary scholars.
Author : Gwendolyn Compton-Engle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 12,96 MB
Release : 2015-04-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 1107083796
This book interprets the handling of costume in the plays of the ancient Greek comic playwright Aristophanes, using as evidence the surviving plays as well as vase-paintings and terracotta figurines. This book fills a gap in the study of ancient Greek drama, focusing on performance, gender, and the body.