Lysistrata: Illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley, Paperback - Aristophanes

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

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...

Witty, urbane insights on life, art, and culture from Aubrey Beardsley, illustrated with selected drawings from his Grotesques series.

In the brief span of his life and career, Aubrey Beardsley (1872-98) galvanized public attention in 1890s London with his exotic renderings of subj...

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 - 30 November 1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet. After writing in d...

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

DescriptionThis 240-page book, Aubrey Beardsley: The Decadent Magician of the Light and the Darkness, reveals the core of the artist Aubrey Beardsl...

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. 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...

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...

DescriptionAubrey Beardsley (1872-1898) was only twenty-five when he died from tuberculosis, but in his short life he established a reputation as o...

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

Publisher: Florida State University, Museum of Fine ArtsAuthor(s): Museum of Fine ArtsNumber of pages: 80Publication date: 2017Dimensions: 215 x 25...

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

Reducere. Lysistrata and Other Plays centers a disgruntled woman whose attempt to end a war takes the battle from an open field to the soldier's bedroom. Wiv...

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

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

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

Reducere. Aristophanes, a native Athenian and the leading exponent of Greek comedy, was born c. 450 BCE. Today forty-three of his plays are known by title; e...

Reducere. A mysterious talking raven pays a visit to a man who is distraught from the loss of his lover. The man, aching over the death of his dear Lenore, i...

Reducere. Am fost intrebat: la ce i-ar servi unui contemporan sa citeasca fie si numai cele trei piese de Aristofan pe care i le propun in volumul de fata? I...

Reducere. „Am fost intrebat: la ce i-ar servi unui contemporan sa citeasca fie si numai cele trei piese de Aristofan pe care i le propun in volumul de fata? ...

Treating ancient plays as living drama.

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. Aesop's ancient Greek fables, short tales with simple morals, often featuring talking animals, are deeply embedded in Western culture. This 1916 tr...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

DescriptionNewly focused on the practical communications skills student pharmacists need for effective practice, this updated Seventh Edition--now ...

Publisher: Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie PublishersAuthor(s): Brian BeardsleyNumber of pages: 29Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 154 x 234 x 25Cover ty...

Reducere. DescriptionFirst performed in 1913, "Pygmalion" is George Bernard's Shaw's play regarding two scholars of phonetics, Professor Henry Higgins and Co...

250 colourfully illustrated stickers of barnyard animals, along with laminated fold-out covers with farm scenes, promise hours of fun creating thei...

Reducere. Princess Aubrey uses her vivid imagination to bring her toy stuffed-animal crocodile to life for a day of fun. Pinkie, the pink crocodile, enjoys a...

Reducere. DescriptionThis Topical Concordance to the Qur'an was compiled by a Muslim Scholar and then translated into English by Aubrey H. Whitehouse. This i...

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