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

A "zany [and] inventive" (Emily Wilson) translation that for the first time captures both the antic outrageousness and lyrical brilliance of antiqu...

Reducere. 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...

Reducere. Whether his target is the war between the sexes or his fellow playwright Euripides, Aristophanes is the most important Greek comic dramatist--and o...

Reducere. DescriptionGreek playwright, Aristophanes, lived during the 5th and 4th century BC and is considered one of the principal authors of the Greek clas...

Lysistrata persuades the women of Greece to withhold sexual privileges from their husbands and lovers as a means of forcing the men to negotiate pe...

Reducere. In Lysistrata a band of women tap into the awesome power of sex in order to end a war. @PussyWhip What’s something we can leverage against men? Wha...

The humor in LYSISTRATA is the focus of this latest adaptation. Playwright Edward Einhorn, known for his comic absurdist plays, translates the anci...

Reducere. A Classic Available Again Aristophanes was the greatest writer of ancient Athenian "old comedy, " known for its satires of contemporary life and fo...

The first substantial commentary on Clouds since Dover's 1968 edition. Intended for intermediate Greek students at undergraduate and graduate level...

Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama which flourished in Athens during the fi...

Reducere. This volume presents the Greek text of Aristophanes' Lysistrata, as edited by F. W. Hall and W. M. Geldart, with a parallel verse translation by Ia...

Reducere. Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this series of new translations. Students are encourage...

Reducere. In these three raucous comedies, mortals outwit and even replace Zeus and other Olympian deities of the Greek Pantheon. As Aristophanes provokes la...

Marrying deft social commentary to a rich, earthy comedy, the three comedies collected in Aristophanes' "The Frogs and Other Plays" offers a unique...

Publisher: Nabu PressAuthor(s): AristophanesIllustration(s): Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 200Publication date: 2010Dimensions: 24...

This volume provides modern, uncensored translations of Aristophanes' Acharnians, Knights, and Wasps. These translations allow readers to explore t...

Treating ancient plays as living drama.

The eleven plays by Aristophanes that have come down to us describe the period spanned by his forty-year career, beginning with the first productio...

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Contends that our search for communal justice must start with self-examination. The realization that there are things that we cannot know about our...

Athenian comedy was written for performance in competitions at religious festivals. This book applies traditional philological techniques to five o...

Reducere. This volume presents the Greek text of Aristophanes' Frogs, as edited by F. W. Hall and W. M. Geldart, with a parallel verse translation by Ian Joh...

Offers scholars of Greek literature new evidence of Aristophanes' polemical use of philosophy in poetic competition; ancient philosophers new evide...

A detailed study of how Aristophanes manipulates traditional narratives of important religious experiences (oracles, healings, epiphanies) to engag...

Collecting three comedies that show Aristophanes tackling the consequences of war and social upheaval in Athens with his characteristic wit, this t...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Luigi (Independent Scholar, UK) BarziniIllustration(s): 1 bw illusNumber of pages: 280Publication da...

This New Mermaids anthology brings together the four most popular and widely studied of Thomas Middleton's plays - Women Beware Women; The Changeli...

Three plays by Greece's most important modern dramatist. The Courtyard of Wonders (1957) and The Four Legs of the Table (1978) explore social issue...

This anthology of four plays is the first publication in English of the work of Olivier Py (born in 1965). The volume includes introductions, a bib...

Nothing begins when you thought it did...Illustrations: 40 integrated greyscale images

Reducere. This new Penguin volume includes the 'greatest hits' of French classical theatre, in vivid and acclaimed English translations. The plays in this vo...

Reducere. DescriptionThis critical edition delivers a unique and comprehensive collection of the works of Ktunaxa-Secwepemc writer and educator Vera Manuel, ...

Publisher: Vor PressNumber of pages: 146Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 152 x 227 x 15Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescopera farmecul lectur...

Part of the Penguin Classics relaunch.

Brings together 4 }New Mermaids{ texts with a new introduction discussing the plays in their historical an literary context.

Contains four of Wilde's plays: "The Importance of Being Earnest"; "An Ideal Husband"; "A Woman of No Importance"; and "Lady Windermere's Fan". Thi...

Publisher: Oxford University PressAuthor(s): Thomas MiddletonNumber of pages: 528Collection: Oxford World's ClassicsPublication date: 2009Dimension...

In the early twentieth-century, four Pentecostal women-Florence Louise Crawford, Mary Magdalena Lewis Tate, Aimee Semple McPherson, and Ida Bell Ro...

Reducere. Border tensions between rival samurai clans escalate into war over a hidden valley, in this fantasy epic from the breathtaking world of Legend of t...

This is a story about four real-life girls, with real-life joys and problems. A story about "Little Women" who became four of the most beloved hero...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this pioneering volume, Robert Skloot brings together four plays - three of which are published here for the first time - that fearle...