Aristophanes Four Plays : Clouds, Birds, Lysistrata, Women of the Assembly

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.

ISBN:	9781324091561
Publisher:	Liveright
Imprint:	Liveright Publishing Corporation
Published date:	22 Mar 2022
DEWEY:	882.01
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	432
Weight:	338g
Height:	137mm
Width:	210mm
Spine width:	27mm

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