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Aristophanes: Frogs and Other Plays - A new verse translation, with introduction and notes (Paperback)
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Aristophanes: Frogs and Other Plays - A new verse translation, with introduction and notes (Paperback)
Series: Oxford World's Classics
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Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old
Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama which flourished in
Athens during the fifth century BC. One of the most original
playwrights in the entire Western tradition, his comedies are
remarkable for their brilliant combination of fantasy and satire,
their constantly inventive manipulation of language, and their use
of absurd characters and plots to expose his society's institutions
and values to the bracing challenge of laughter. This vibrant
collection of verse translations of Aristophanes' works combines
historical accuracy with a sensitive attempt to capture the rich
dramatic and literary qualities of Aristophanic comedy. The volume
presents Clouds, with its famous caricature of the philosopher
Socrates; Women at the Thesmophoria (or Thesmophoriazusae), a work
which mixes elaborate parody of tragedy with a great deal of
transvestite burlesque; and Frogs, in which the dead tragedians
Aeschylus and Euripides engage in a vituperative contest of
'literary criticism' of each other's plays. Featuring expansive
introductions to each play and detailed explanatory notes, the
volume also includes an illuminating appendix, which provides
information and selected fragments from the lost plays of
Aristophanes.
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