Lysistrata

Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-13
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9783986772352

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Lysistrata by Aristophanes Pdf

Lysistrata Aristophanes - Greek playwright, Aristophanes, lived during the 5th and 4th century BC and is considered one of the principal authors of the Greek classical period. Of the nearly thirty plays he wrote during his career, eleven are extant. Amongst the most famous of these is Lysistrata, a comedy which focuses on the women of Greece whose husbands have left for the Peloponnesian War. The women do not care about the conflict as much as they care about missing their husbands. Its titular character, Lysistrata, insists that men rarely listen to womens reasoning and exclude their opinions on matters of state. In retaliation she convinces the women of Greece to organize a strike, refusing to have sex with their husbands until both sides agree to cease fighting. The irony of this is that the men become more upset with their wives than they do with their enemies of war. Notable for its positive portrayal of womens rationality in a male-dominated society, Lysistrata stands as one the most popular and frequently performed plays from classical antiquity

Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1991-08-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781461703501

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Lysistrata by Aristophanes Pdf

Aristophanes' great anti-war drama glorifies the power of fertility in the face of destruction. Mr. Rudall's new translation recaptures the splendid variety of diction in Aristophanes, so that instead of a heavily poetic presentation the play becomes highly theatrical.

Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780141907017

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Lysistrata and Other Plays by Aristophanes Pdf

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 : Aristophanes
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-14
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780806185149

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Lysistrata, The Women's Festival, and Frogs by Aristophanes Pdf

Most readers nowadays encounter the plays of Aristophanes in the classroom, not the theater. Yet the "father of comedy" wrote his plays for the stage, not as literary texts. Many English translations of the plays were written decades ago, and in their outdated language they fail to capture the dramatic liveliness of the original comedies. Now Michael Ewans offers new and lively translations of three of Aristophanes' finest plays: Lysistrata, The Women's Festival, and Frogs. While remaining faithful to the original Greek, these translations are accessible to a modern audience—and actable on stage. Here readers will discover—in all its uncensored glory—the often raw sexual and scatological language Aristophanes used in his fantastically inventive works. This edition also contains all that a reader needs to understand the plays within a broader context. In his comprehensive introduction, Ewans discusses political and social aspects of Aristophanic comedy, the conventions of Greek theater, and the challenges of translating ancient Greek into modern English. In his theatrical commentaries—a unique feature of this edition—Ewans draws on his own experience of directing the plays in a replica of the original theater. In scene-by-scene analysis, he provides insight into the major issues each play raises in performance. The volume concludes with two glossaries—one of proper names and the other of Greek terms—as well as a bibliography that includes the most recent scholarship on Aristophanic comedy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Robert Martin Fink
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Lysistrata & the War -- Libretto by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781472519962

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Looking at Lysistrata by Anonim Pdf

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 : Molière
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780486112848

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Tartuffe by Molière Pdf

Brimming with lively humor and satirical plot devices, this timeless comedy concerns the outrageous activities of a penniless scoundrel and religious pretender as he wreaks havoc among members of his benefactor's household.

Author : James F. McGlew
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0472112856

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Citizens on Stage by James F. McGlew Pdf

Examines Old Comedy's representation of the citizen in fifth-century democratic Athens

Author : Lisa Pace Vetter
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0739110632

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"Women's Work" as Political Art by Lisa Pace Vetter Pdf

This book shows that the metaphor of the quintessentially feminine art of weaving in Homer's Odyssey, Aristophanes' Lysistrata, and Plato's Statesman and Phaedo conveys complex and inclusive teachings about human nature and political life that address the concerns of women mor...

Author : Aristophanes,Samuel Smith,Aubrey Beardsley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 194166704X

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Lysistrata by Aristophanes,Samuel Smith,Aubrey Beardsley Pdf

A Classic Available Again Aristophanes was the greatest writer of ancient Athenian "old comedy," known for its satires of contemporary life and for its broad, often obscene humor. "Lysistrata" was first produced in 411 BC, when the Peloponnesian War had been devastating Greece for 20 years. Most people know the plot: Lysistrata assembles women from all of Greece, and they agree that they will not have sex until the men make peace. Aubrey Beardsley was the greatest and the most controversial Art Nouveau illustrator in England, famous for his illustrations of Mallory's "Morte d'Arthur," Oscar Wilde's "Salome," Pope's "The Rape of the Lock," and for several magazines. Because he was associated with Oscar Wilde, Beardsley lost his job as art editor of a magazine named "The Yellow Book" in 1895, soon after Wilde was arrested for homosexuality. He was approached by Leonard Smithers, a publisher of erotic books, who asked him to illustrate "Lysistrata." His illustrations are very much in the spirit of Aristophanes, as funny as they are obscene. Beardsley converted to Catholicism in 1897, and soon after, he asked Smithers to "destroy all copies of "Lysistrata"" with its "obscene drawings," but Smithers refused. Beardsley died of tuberculosis in 1898, at the age of 26. Smithers initially published "Lysistrata" in a limited edition of one hundred copies. It was reprinted in the 1960s and 1970s, but copies have long been scarce and expensive. Though some may find it offensive, we believe it is valuable to reprint this book, so all the books illustrated by this great artist are readily available.

Author : Carlo Ferdinando Russo
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Aristophanes
ISBN : 9780415154048

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Aristophanes by Carlo Ferdinando Russo Pdf

This is the classic book about Aristophanes. Russo examines the plays as libretti for actors and singers rather than as mere texts, and never loses sight of the stage.

Author : Laura McClure
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0691017301

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Spoken Like a Woman by Laura McClure Pdf

Examining tragedies and comedies by a variety of authors, she illustrates how the dramatic poets exploited speech conventions among both women and men to construct characters and to convey urgent social and political issues."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781631496332

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

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.

Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Greece
ISBN : OCLC:50867918

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Lysistrata by Aristophanes Pdf

Author : Henry Leland Clarke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Lysistrata (Fictitious character)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041930277

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Lysistrata by Henry Leland Clarke Pdf