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Plays: "Wasps", "Clouds", "Birds", "Festival Time" and "Frogs" Vol 2 (World Dramatists) Book

This mixture of social and political satire, bawdy with passages of lyrical beauty, offers an insight into ancient Athens and its theatre. McLeish also has translated...Read More

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  • Product Description

    Aristophanes is the oldest comedic writer in Western literature. Although only eleven of the some forty plays he wrote survive, his unique blend of slapstick, fantasy, bawdy, and political satire provide us with a vivid picture of the ancient Athenians—their social mores, their beliefs, and their exuberant sense of occasion. Wasps is a lowcourt satire; Clouds a lighthearted look at education; Birds a search for the perfect society; Festival Time a feminist trial of Euripides and Frogs a celebration of and debate around the theatre. Introduced and translated by Kenneth McLeish, with a general introduction by series editor J. Michael Walton.

  • 0413669106
  • 9780413669100
  • Aristophanes
  • 11 March 1993
  • Methuen Drama
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 398
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