Frogs and Other Plays

Frogs and Other Plays
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0192824090
ISBN-13 : 9780192824097
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis Frogs and Other Plays by : Aristophanes

This vibrant collection of verse translations of Aristophanes' works-featuring Clouds, Women at the Thesmophoria (or Thesmophoriazusae), and Frogs-combines historical accuracy with a sensitive attempt to capture the rich dramatic and literary qualities of Aristophanic comedy. Including expansive introductions to each play, as well as detailed explanatory notes and an illuminating appendix, this volume presents freshinterpretations of three key works from one of the most original playwrights in the entire Western tradition.

Venom in Verse

Venom in Verse
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 305
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ISBN-10 : 9781400823758
ISBN-13 : 1400823757
Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Synopsis Venom in Verse by : Gonda A.H. Van Steen

Aristophanes has enjoyed a conspicuous revival in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Greece. Here, Gonda Van Steen provides the first critical analysis of the role of the classical Athenian playwright in modern Greek culture, explaining how the sociopolitical "venom" of Aristophanes' verses remains relevant and appealing to modern Greek audiences. Deriding or challenging well-known figures and conservative values, Aristophanes' comedies transgress authority and continue to speak to many social groups in Greece who have found in him a witty, pointed, and accessible champion from their "native" tradition. The book addresses the broader issues reflected in the poet's revival: political and linguistic nationalism, literary and cultural authenticity versus creativity, censorship, and social strife. Van Steen's discussion ranges from attitudes toward Aristophanes before and during Greece's War of Independence in the 1820s to those during the Cold War, from feminist debates to the significance of the popular music integrated into comic revival productions, from the havoc transvestite adaptations wreaked on gender roles to the political protest symbolized by Karolos Koun's directorial choices. Crossing boundaries of classical philology, critical theory, and performance studies, the book encourages us to reassess Aristophanes' comedies as both play-acts and modern methods of communication. Van Steen uses material never before accessible in English as she proves that Aristophanes remains Greece's immortal comic genius and political voice.

Aristophanes: Four Plays: Clouds, Birds, Lysistrata, Women of the Assembly

Aristophanes: Four Plays: Clouds, Birds, Lysistrata, Women of the Assembly
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Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Total Pages : 452
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ISBN-10 : 9781631496332
ISBN-13 : 1631496336
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis Aristophanes: Four Plays: Clouds, Birds, Lysistrata, Women of the Assembly by : Aristophanes

Capturing the antic outrageousness and lyrical brilliance of antiquity’s greatest comedies, Aaron Poochigian’s Aristophanes: Four Plays brings these classic dramas to vivid life for a twenty-first century audience. The citizens of ancient Athens enjoyed a freedom of speech as broad as our own. This freedom, parrhesia, the right to say what one pleased, how and when one pleased, and to whom, had no more fervent champion than the brilliant fifth-century comic playwright Aristophanes. His plays, immensely popular with the Athenian public, were frequently crude, even obscene. He ridiculed the great and the good of the city, showing up their hypocrisy and arrogance in ways that went far beyond the standards of good taste, securing the ire (and sometimes the retaliation) of his powerful targets. He showed his contemporaries, and he teaches us now, that when those in power act obscenely, patriotic obscenity is a fitting response. Aristophanes’s satirical masterpieces were also surpassingly virtuosic works of poetry. The metrical variety of his plays has always thrilled readers who can access the original Greek, but until now, English translations have failed to capture their lyrical genius. Aaron Poochigian, the first poet-classicist to tackle these plays in a generation, brings back to life four of Aristophanes’s most entertaining, wickedly crude, and frequently beautiful lyric comedies—the pinnacle of his comic art: · Clouds, a play famous for its caricature of antiquity’s greatest philosopher, Socrates; · Lysistrata, in which a woman convinces her female compatriots to withhold sex from their warmongering lovers unless they negotiate peace; · Birds, in which feathered creatures build a great city and become like gods; · and Women of the Assembly, Aristophones’s most revolutionary play, which inverts the norms of gender and power. Poochigian’s new rendering of these comic masterpieces finally gives contemporary readers a sense of the subversive pleasure Aristophones’s original audiences felt when they were first performed on the Athenian stage.

Knights

Knights
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 236
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ISBN-10 : NYPL:33433081618245
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Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Synopsis Knights by : Aristophanes

Aristophanes: Frogs and Other Plays

Aristophanes: Frogs and Other Plays
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 401
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ISBN-10 : 9780192695178
ISBN-13 : 0192695177
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis Aristophanes: Frogs and Other Plays by : Aristophanes

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 combination of fantasy and satire, their constantly inventive manipulation of language, and their use of absurd characters and plots to expose his society's institutions and values to the bracing challenge of laughter. This vibrant collection of verse translations of Aristophanes' works combines historical accuracy with a sensitive attempt to capture the rich dramatic and literary qualities of Aristophanic comedy. The volume presents Clouds, with its famous caricature of the philosopher Socrates; Women at the Thesmophoria (or Thesmophoriazusae), a work which mixes elaborate parody of tragedy with a great deal of transvestite burlesque; and Frogs, in which the dead tragedians Aeschylus and Euripides engage in a vituperative contest of 'literary criticism' of each other's plays. Featuring expansive introductions to each play and detailed explanatory notes, the volume also includes an illuminating appendix, which provides information and selected fragments from the lost plays of Aristophanes.

Lysistrata

Lysistrata
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Total Pages : 64
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ISBN-10 : NWU:35556023394745
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Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Synopsis Lysistrata by : Aristophanes

Frogs and Other Plays

Frogs and Other Plays
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Publisher : Penguin UK
Total Pages : 340
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ISBN-10 : 9780141935775
ISBN-13 : 0141935774
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis Frogs and Other Plays by : Aristophanes

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.

Lysistrata

Lysistrata
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ISBN-10 : 0299329844
ISBN-13 : 9780299329846
Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Synopsis Lysistrata by : Aristophanes

The Acharnians

The Acharnians
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 44
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ISBN-10 : 9781625580689
ISBN-13 : 1625580681
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis The Acharnians by : Aristophanes

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.

Aristophanes' Clouds

Aristophanes' Clouds
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Total Pages : 208
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ISBN-10 : 1940997232
ISBN-13 : 9781940997230
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis Aristophanes' Clouds by : Aristophanes

This volume presents the Greek text of Aristophanes' Clouds, as edited by F. W. Hall and W. M. Geldart, with a parallel verse translation by Ian Johnston on facing pages, which will be useful to those wishing to read the English translation while referring to the Greek original, or vice versa.