Lysistrata

• Author : Aristophanes
• Publisher : Penguin
• Release Date : 2009-04-07
• Total pages : 144
• ISBN : 9780872206038

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Summary : In Lysistrata a band of women tap into the awesome power of sex in order to end a war....

• Author : Aristophanes
• Publisher : Hackett Publishing
• Release Date : 2003
• Total pages : 126
• ISBN : 9780872206038

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Summary : Aristophanes helped shape comedy ... despite their often fantasical premises, were fairly consistently concerned with contemporary politics and social institutions. ... mildly aristocratic ... patriotic ... suspicious of social innovation ... sympathetic to the struggles of the common people ... unrestrained in insult ... exuberantly bawdy....

• Author : Aristophanes
• Publisher : Penguin UK
• Release Date : 2003-01-30
• Total pages : 304
• ISBN : 9780872206038

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Summary : The Acharnians/The Clouds/Lysistrata 'We women have the salvation of Greece in our hands' Writing at a time of political and social crisis in Athens, the ancient Greek comic playwright Aristophanes was an eloquent, yet bawdy, challenger to the demagogue and the sophist. In Lysistrata and The Acharnians, two ...

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : A&C Black
• Release Date : 2013-11-01
• Total pages : 168
• ISBN : 9780872206038

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Summary : In Aristophanes' Lysistrata, the women of Athens, fed up with the war against Sparta, go on a sex strike and barricade themselves into the acropolis to persuade their husbands to vote against the war. It is the most often performed of all Aristophanes' comedies. It is also, perhaps, the most ...

• Author : Aristophanes Aristophanes
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2018-04-03
• Total pages : 40
• ISBN : 9780872206038

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Summary : Download or read online Lysistrata written by Aristophanes Aristophanes, published by which was released on 2018-04-03. Get Lysistrata Books now! Available in PDF, ePub and Kindle....

• Author : Aristophanes,Jeffrey Henderson
• Publisher : Focus
• Release Date : 1988
• Total pages : 83
• ISBN : 9780872206038

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Summary : English translation of Aristophanes' most popular comedy, with a lively, imaginative plot, memorable heroine, and appeal for peace and tolerance between nations and between the sexes. Includes helpful notes and an introductory essay on Aristophanes, the history of the play and its production, a bibliography and suggestions for further reading....

• Author : Aristophanes,Edward Einhorn
• Publisher : Theater 61 Press
• Release Date : 2006
• Total pages : 110
• ISBN : 9780872206038

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Summary : Playwright Einhorn, known for his comic absurdist plays, translates the ancient Greek humor for a modern audience. Complete with essays, selected sheet music, and a second version of the play for inventive directors, this newest adaptation focuses on war, sex, and, most of all, laughter. (Plays/Drama)...

• Author : Robert Fink
• Publisher : Robert Martin Fink
• Release Date : 1978
• Total pages : 242
• ISBN : 9780872206038

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Summary : Download or read online Lysistrata and the War written by Robert Fink, published by Robert Martin Fink which was released on 1978. Get Lysistrata and the War Books now! Available in PDF, ePub and Kindle....

• Author : Fletcher Flora
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release Date : 2011-12-31
• Total pages : 200
• ISBN : 9780872206038

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Summary : Lysistrata paced relentlessly in the garden, nervously plucking at leaves. It had been seven months since she had seen her husband, Lycon - since he had left her to go off to war. Seven months of lonely days and empty nights - of aching heart and throbbing loins. Seven months ...

• Author : Aristophanes
• Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
• Release Date : 2012-09-14
• Total pages : 352
• ISBN : 9780872206038

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Summary : Most readers nowadays encounter the plays of Aristophanes in the classroom, not the theater. Yet the "father of comedy" wrote his plays for the stage, not as literary texts. Many English translations of the plays were written decades ago, and in their outdated language they fail to capture the dramatic ...

• Author : Aristophanes Aristophanes
• Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
• Release Date : 2019-03-11
• Total pages : 333
• ISBN : 9780872206038

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Summary : Perhaps the first thing to strike us-paradoxical as it may sound to say so-about the Athenian 'Old Comedy' is its modernness. Of its very nature, satiric drama comes later than Epic and Lyric poetry, Tragedy or History; Aristophanes follows Homer and Simonides, Sophocles and Thucydides. Of its essence, it is ...

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Robert Martin Fink
• Release Date : 2021-10-18
• Total pages : 212
• ISBN : 9780872206038

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Summary : Download or read online Lysistrata the War Libretto written by , published by Robert Martin Fink which was released on . Get Lysistrata the War Libretto Books now! Available in PDF, ePub and Kindle....

• Author : Aristophanes
• Publisher : Harvard University Press
• Release Date : 1998
• Total pages : 618
• ISBN : 9780872206038

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Summary : Offers plays by one of the world's greatest comic dramatists in a bilingual edition....

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : A&C Black
• Release Date : 2013-11-01
• Total pages : 168
• ISBN : 9780872206038

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Summary : In Aristophanes' Lysistrata, the women of Athens, fed up with the war against Sparta, go on a sex strike and barricade themselves into the acropolis to persuade their husbands to vote against the war. It is the most often performed of all Aristophanes' comedies. It is also, perhaps, the most ...

• Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
• Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
• Release Date : 2016
• Total pages : 21
• ISBN : 9780872206038

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Summary : A Study Guide for Aristophanes's "Lysistrata," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs....