Author: AristophanesPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : el
Pages : 614
Book Description
The Frogs. The Ecclesiazusae
Author: AristophanesThe Thesmophoriazusae of Aristophanes
Author: AristophanesPublisher:
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Category : Athens in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The Knights
Author: AristophanesPublisher:
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
The Thesmophoriazusae of Aristophanes Acted at Athens in the Year B.C. 410
Author: AristophanesThe birds of Aristophanes
Author: AristophanesAristophanous Thesmophoriazousai
Author: AristophanesPublisher:
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Category : Fasts and feasts
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
The Birds
Author: AristophanesPublisher:
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Category : Athens (Greece)
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Aristophanes: Frogs
Author: C. W. MarshallPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350080942
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
A comedy about tragedy and a play about playmaking, Aristophanes' Frogs (405 BCE) is perhaps the most popular of ancient comedies. This new introduction guides students through the play, its themes and contemporary contexts, and its reception history. Frogs offers sustained engagement with the Athenian literary scene, with the politics of Athens at the end of the Peloponnesian War, and with the religious understanding of the fifth-century city. It presents the earliest direct criticism of theatre and a detailed description of the Underworld, and also dramatizes the place of Mystery cults in the religious life of Athens and shows the political concerns that galvanized the citizens. It is also genuinely funny, showcasing a range of comic techniques, including literary and musical parody, political invective, grotesque distortion, wordplay, prop comedy, and funny costumes. Frogs has inspired literary works by Henry Fielding, George Bernard Shaw, and Tom Stoppard. This book explores all of these features in a series of short chapters designed to be accessible to a new reader of ancient comedy. It proceeds linearly through the play, addressing a range of issues, but paying particular attention to stagecraft and performance. It also offers a bold new interpretation of the play, suggesting that the action of Frogs was not the first time Euripides and Aeschylus had competed against each other.
The Comedies of Aristophanes
Author: AristophanesProceedings of the Classical Association
Author: Classical Association (Great Britain)Publisher:
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Category : Classical education
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Rules and list of members included in each volumes.