A Study Guide for Aristophanes's "Lysistrata"

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Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 1410351742
Total Pages : 29 pages
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Download or read book A Study Guide for Aristophanes's "Lysistrata" written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2016 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Lysistrata

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
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Book Synopsis Lysistrata by : Aristophanes

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Knights

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
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Download or read book Knights written by Aristophanes and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Liz Estrada

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ISBN 13 : 9781736900437
Total Pages : 82 pages
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Sex and War on the American Stage

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135087725
Total Pages : 206 pages
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Book Synopsis Sex and War on the American Stage by : Emily Klein

Download or read book Sex and War on the American Stage written by Emily Klein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American adaptations of Aristophanes’ enduring comedy Lysistrata have used laughter to critique sex, war, and feminism for nearly a century. Unlike almost any other play circulating in contemporary theatres, Lysistrata has outlived its classical origins in 411 BCE and continues to shock and delight audiences to this day. The play’s "make love not war" message and bawdy humor render it endlessly appealing to college campuses, activist groups, and community theatres – so much so that none of Aristophanes’ plays are performed in the West as frequently as Lysistrata. Starting with the play’s first mainstream production in the U.S. in 1930, Emily B. Klein explores the varied iterations of Lysistrata that have graced the American stage, page, and screen since the Great Depression. These include the Federal Theatre’s 1936 Negro Repertory production, the 1955 movie musical The Second Greatest Sex and Spiderwoman Theater’s openly political Lysistrata Numbah!, as well as Douglas Carter Beane’s Broadway musical, Lysistrata Jones, and the international Lysistrata Project protests, which updated the classic in the contemporary context of the Iraq War. Although Aristophanes’ oeuvre has been the subject of much classical scholarship, Lysistrata has received little attention from feminist theatre scholars or performance theorists. In response, this book maps current debates over Lysistrata’s dubious feminist underpinnings and uses performance theory, cultural studies, and gender studies to investigate how new adaptations reveal the socio-political climates of their origins. Emily B. Klein is Assistant Professor of English and Drama at Saint Mary's College of California. Her work has appeared in Women and Performance and Frontiers as well as Political and Protest Theater After 9/11: Patriotic Dissent (Routledge, 2012).

Lysistrata and Other Plays

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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141907010
Total Pages : 421 pages
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Download or read book Lysistrata and Other Plays written by Aristophanes and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2003-01-30 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 pleas for an end to the long war between Athens and Sparta, a band of women on a sex strike and a lone peasant respectively defeat the political establishment. The darker comedy of The Clouds satirizes Athenian philosophers, Socrates in particular, and reflects the uncertainties of a generation in which all traditional religious and ethical beliefs were being challenged. Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Alan H. Sommerstein

The Athenian Adonia in Context

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Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299308200
Total Pages : 282 pages
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Book Synopsis The Athenian Adonia in Context by : Laurialan Reitzammer

Download or read book The Athenian Adonia in Context written by Laurialan Reitzammer and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2016-05-11 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh examination of a marginalized women's festival that influenced Athenian art, drama, philosophy, and public institutions.

Tartuffe

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Publisher : Standard Ebooks
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
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Book Synopsis Tartuffe by : Molière

Download or read book Tartuffe written by Molière and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2021-07-15T19:16:01Z with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first three acts of Molière’s Tartuffe were first performed for Louis XIV in 1664, but the play was almost immediately suppressed—not because the King disliked it, but because the church resented the insinuation that the pious were frauds. After several different versions were written and performed privately, Tartuffe was eventually published in its final five-act form in 1669. A comic tale of man taken in by a sanctimonious scoundrel, the characters of Tartuffe, Elmire, and Orgon are considered among some of the great classical theater roles. As the family strives to convince the patriarch that Tartuffe is a religious fraud, the play ultimately focuses on skewering not the hypocrite, but his victims, and the hypocrisy of fervent religious belief unchecked by facts or reason—a defense Molière himself used to overcome the church’s proscriptions. In the end, the play was so impactful that both French and English now use the word “Tartuffe” to refer to a religious hypocrite who feigns virtue. In its original French, the play is written in twelve-syllable lines of rhyming couplets. Curtis Hidden Page’s translation invokes a popular compromise and renders it into the familiar blank verse without rhymed endings that was popularized by Shakespeare. The translation is considered a seminal one by modern translators. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.

Looking at Lysistrata

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Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472519965
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Looking at Lysistrata written by and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 misunderstood. This collection of essays by eight leading academics - written for sixth-form students and the general public alike - sets the play firmly in its historical and social context, while exploring Aristophanes' purpose in writing it and considering the responses of modern audiences and directors. The collection has been assembled and edited by David Stuttard, whose energetic new performing version of the play is included in this volume. Contributors include: Alan Beale; Edith Hall; Lorna Hardwick; James Morwood; Martin Revermann; James Robson; Alan H. Sommerstein; Michael Walton.

The Acharnians

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1625580681
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (255 download)

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Book Synopsis The Acharnians by : Aristophanes

Download or read book The Acharnians written by Aristophanes and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing at the time of political and social crisis in Athens, Aristophanes was an eloquent yet bawdy challenger to the demagogue and the sophist. The Achanians is a plea for peace set against the background of the long war with Sparta.

"Women's Work" as Political Art

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Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739110638
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Book Synopsis "Women's Work" as Political Art by : Lisa Pace Vetter

Download or read book "Women's Work" as Political Art written by Lisa Pace Vetter and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows that the metaphor of the quintessentially feminine art of weaving in Homer's Odyssey, Aristophanes' Lysistrata, and Plato's Statesman and Phaedo conveys complex and inclusive teachings about human nature and political life that address the concerns of women mor...

Machinal

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Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9781854592118
Total Pages : 102 pages
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Book Synopsis Machinal by : Sophie Treadwell

Download or read book Machinal written by Sophie Treadwell and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frequently reprinted with the same ISBN, but with slightly differing bibliographic data.

Aristophanes' Comedy of Names

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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110247062
Total Pages : 243 pages
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Book Synopsis Aristophanes' Comedy of Names by : Nikoletta Kanavou

Download or read book Aristophanes' Comedy of Names written by Nikoletta Kanavou and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aristophanes, the celebrated Greek comic poet, is famous for his plays on contemporary themes, in which he exercises fierce political satire. Ancient political comedy made ample use of comically significant proper names - much as is the case in modern satire. Comic names used by Aristophanes for his satirical targets (public figures, everyday Athenians) provide the main subject of this book, which addresses questions such as why particular names are chosen (or invented), and how they relate to the plays' characters and themes.

Costume in the Comedies of Aristophanes

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107083796
Total Pages : 217 pages
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Book Synopsis Costume in the Comedies of Aristophanes by : Gwendolyn Compton-Engle

Download or read book Costume in the Comedies of Aristophanes written by Gwendolyn Compton-Engle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-27 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book interprets the handling of costume in the plays of the ancient Greek comic playwright Aristophanes, using as evidence the surviving plays as well as vase-paintings and terracotta figurines. This book fills a gap in the study of ancient Greek drama, focusing on performance, gender, and the body.

A Door Into Ocean

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Publisher : Orb Books
ISBN 13 : 1429963654
Total Pages : 418 pages
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Book Synopsis A Door Into Ocean by : Joan Slonczewski

Download or read book A Door Into Ocean written by Joan Slonczewski and published by Orb Books. This book was released on 2000-10-13 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joan Slonczewski's A Door into Ocean is the novel upon which the author's reputation as an important SF writer principally rests. A ground-breaking work both of feminist SF and of world-building hard SF, it concerns the Sharers of Shora, a nation of women on a distant moon in the far future who are pacifists, highly advanced in biological sciences, and who reproduce by parthenogenesis--there are no males--and tells of the conflicts that erupt when a neighboring civilization decides to develop their ocean world, and send in an army. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Peace

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1625580630
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (255 download)

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Book Synopsis Peace by : Aristophanes

Download or read book Peace written by Aristophanes and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rollicking attack on war-makers, the farmer-hero makes his famous trip to heaven on a dung beetle to discuss the issues with Zeus.

Aristophanes' Lysistrata

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ISBN 13 : 9781940997971
Total Pages : 164 pages
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Book Synopsis Aristophanes' Lysistrata by : Stephen A. Nimis

Download or read book Aristophanes' Lysistrata written by Stephen A. Nimis and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-25 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the Greek text of Aristophanes' Lysistrata, as edited by F. W. Hall and W. M. Geldart, with a parallel verse translation by Ian Johnston on facing pages, which will be useful to those wishing to read the English translation while referring to the Greek original, or vice versa.