Aristophanes: Four Plays – Clouds, Birds, Lysistrata, Women of the Assembly : Clouds, Birds, Lysistrata, Women of the Assembly
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Aristophanes
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1631496506
ISBN-13
9781631496509
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Imprint
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 16th, 2021
Print length
432 Pages
Weight
760 grams
Dimensions
24.30 x 16.60 x 3.60 cms
Product Classification:
Plays, playscriptsPlays, playscripts, drama
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A “zany [and] inventive” (Emily Wilson) translation that for the first time captures both the antic outrageousness and lyrical brilliance of antiquity’s greatest comedies.
Aristophanes’s satirical masterpieces, immensely popular with the Athenian public, were frequently crude, even obscene. His plays revealed to his contemporaries, and now teach us today, that when those in power act obscenely, patriotic obscenity is a fitting response. Until now English translations have failed to capture Aristophanes’s poetic genius. Aaron Poochigian, the first poet-classicist to tackle these plays in a generation, offers “effortlessly readable and genuinely theatrical” (Simon Armitage) versions of four of Aristophanes’s most entertaining, provocative and lyrically ingenious comedies, finally giving twenty-first-century readers a sense of the subversive pleasure audiences felt when these works were first performed on the Athenian stage.
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