Author: Heinrich StobitzerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Their ideals, comedy. Transl
Author: Heinrich StobitzerTheir Ideals. Comedy in Three Acts [and in Prose] ... Translation from the German, Etc
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Author: Heinrich STOBITZERTheir Ideals. Comedy in Three Acts. Utilizing an Idea of Levin Shuckings. Translation from the German, Under the Sanction of the Author
Author: Heinrich StobitzerAristophanes: Four Plays: Clouds, Birds, Lysistrata, Women of the Assembly
Author: AristophanesPublisher: Liveright Publishing
ISBN: 1631496336
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
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.
Some Remarks on Translation and Translators
Author: English AssociationPublisher:
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Category : Translating and interpreting
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
The Divine Comedy ... Translated in Terza Rima by John Dayman
Author: Dante AlighieriMoliere: The Complete Richard Wilbur Translations, Volume 2
Author: MolierePublisher: Library of America
ISBN: 1598537121
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
For the 400th anniversary of Moliere's birth, Richard Wilbur's unsurpassed translations of Molière's plays--themselves towering achievements in English verse--are brought together by Library of America in a two-volume edition One of the most accomplished American poets of his generation, Richard Wilbur (1921-2017) was also a prolific translator of French and Russian literature. His verse translations of Molière's plays are especially admired by readers and are still performed today in theaters around the world. "Wilbur," the critic John Simon once wrote, "makes Molière into as great an English verse playwright as he was a French one." Now, for the first time, all ten of Wilbur's unsurpassed translations of Molière's plays are brought together in two-volume Library of America edition, fulfilling the poet's vision for the translations. The second volume includes the elusive masterpiece, The Misanthrope, often said to occupy the same space in comedy as Shakespeare's Hamlet does in tragedy; the fantastic farce Amphitryon, about how Jupiter and Mercury commandeer the identities of two mortals ; Tartuffe, Molière's biting satire of religious hypocrisy; and The Learned Ladies, like Tarfuffe, a drama of a household turned suddenly upside down. This volume includes the original introductions by Richard Wilbur and a foreword by Adam Gopnik on the exquisite art of Wilbur's translations.
A Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature
Author: August Wilhelm von SchlegelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
The Eleven Comedies; With Translator's Foreword An Introduction To Each Comedy And Elucidatory Notes, In Two Volumes
Author: AristophanesPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 338731857X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Tragedy and Comedy
Author: Mark William RochePublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791435465
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
The first evaluation and critique of Hegel's theory of tragedy and comedy, this book also develops an original theory of both genres.