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Author : Aristophanes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Lysistrata written by Aristophanes and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141907010
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
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
Author : Molière
Publisher : Standard Ebooks
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (417 download)
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.
Author : Allen Huffstutter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781736900437
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Liz Estrada written by Allen Huffstutter and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-16 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Aristophanes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781941667040
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (67 download)
Download or read book Lysistrata written by Aristophanes and published by . This book was released on 2014-11-14 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Classic Available Again Aristophanes was the greatest writer of ancient Athenian "old comedy," known for its satires of contemporary life and for its broad, often obscene humor. "Lysistrata" was first produced in 411 BC, when the Peloponnesian War had been devastating Greece for 20 years. Most people know the plot: Lysistrata assembles women from all of Greece, and they agree that they will not have sex until the men make peace. Aubrey Beardsley was the greatest and the most controversial Art Nouveau illustrator in England, famous for his illustrations of Mallory's "Morte d'Arthur," Oscar Wilde's "Salome," Pope's "The Rape of the Lock," and for several magazines. Because he was associated with Oscar Wilde, Beardsley lost his job as art editor of a magazine named "The Yellow Book" in 1895, soon after Wilde was arrested for homosexuality. He was approached by Leonard Smithers, a publisher of erotic books, who asked him to illustrate "Lysistrata." His illustrations are very much in the spirit of Aristophanes, as funny as they are obscene. Beardsley converted to Catholicism in 1897, and soon after, he asked Smithers to "destroy all copies of "Lysistrata"" with its "obscene drawings," but Smithers refused. Beardsley died of tuberculosis in 1898, at the age of 26. Smithers initially published "Lysistrata" in a limited edition of one hundred copies. It was reprinted in the 1960s and 1970s, but copies have long been scarce and expensive. Though some may find it offensive, we believe it is valuable to reprint this book, so all the books illustrated by this great artist are readily available.
Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1631496336
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (314 download)
Download or read book Aristophanes: Four Plays: Clouds, Birds, Lysistrata, Women of the Assembly written by Aristophanes and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capturing the antic outrageousness and lyrical brilliance of antiquity’s greatest comedies, Aaron Poochigian’s Aristophanes: Four Plays brings these classic dramas to vivid life for a twenty-first century audience. The citizens of ancient Athens enjoyed a freedom of speech as broad as our own. This freedom, parrhesia, the right to say what one pleased, how and when one pleased, and to whom, had no more fervent champion than the brilliant fifth-century comic playwright Aristophanes. His plays, immensely popular with the Athenian public, were frequently crude, even obscene. He ridiculed the great and the good of the city, showing up their hypocrisy and arrogance in ways that went far beyond the standards of good taste, securing the ire (and sometimes the retaliation) of his powerful targets. He showed his contemporaries, and he teaches us now, that when those in power act obscenely, patriotic obscenity is a fitting response. Aristophanes’s satirical masterpieces were also surpassingly virtuosic works of poetry. The metrical variety of his plays has always thrilled readers who can access the original Greek, but until now, English translations have failed to capture their lyrical genius. Aaron Poochigian, the first poet-classicist to tackle these plays in a generation, brings back to life four of Aristophanes’s most entertaining, wickedly crude, and frequently beautiful lyric comedies—the pinnacle of his comic art: · Clouds, a play famous for its caricature of antiquity’s greatest philosopher, Socrates; · Lysistrata, in which a woman convinces her female compatriots to withhold sex from their warmongering lovers unless they negotiate peace; · Birds, in which feathered creatures build a great city and become like gods; · and Women of the Assembly, Aristophones’s most revolutionary play, which inverts the norms of gender and power. Poochigian’s new rendering of these comic masterpieces finally gives contemporary readers a sense of the subversive pleasure Aristophones’s original audiences felt when they were first performed on the Athenian stage.
Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Lysistrata written by Aristophanes and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-04 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Lysistrata" by Aristophanes. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
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Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472519965
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)
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.
Author : Douglass Parker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780318414843
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (148 download)
Download or read book Lysistrata written by Douglass Parker and published by . This book was released on 1988-12-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Emily Klein
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135087725
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)
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).
Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1625580681
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (255 download)
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.
Author : Kate Gilhuly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139475282
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book The Feminine Matrix of Sex and Gender in Classical Athens written by Kate Gilhuly and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-11-24 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Feminine Matrix of Sex and Gender in Classical Athens, Kate Gilhuly explores the relationship between the prostitute, the wife, and the ritual performer in Athenian literature. She suggests that these three roles formed a symbolic continuum that served as an alternative to a binary conception of gender in classical Athens and provided a framework for assessing both masculine and feminine civic behaviour. Grounded in close readings of four texts, 'Against Neaira', Plato's Symposium, Xenophon's Symposium, and Aristophanes' Lysistrata, this book draws upon observations from gender studies and the history of sexuality in ancient Greece to illuminate the relevance of these representations of women to civic behaviour, pederasty, philosophy, and politics. In these original readings, Gilhuly casts a new light on the complexity of the classical Athenian sex/gender system, demonstrating how various and even opposing strategies worked together to articulate different facets of the Athenian subject.
Author : Emily Prager
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9780394755922
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (559 download)
Download or read book A Visit from the Footbinder, and Other Stories written by Emily Prager and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1987 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emily Prager's sensational first book of fiction, which was acclaimed as "splendid and original" (New York Times), is now available in the popular Vintage Contemporaries series.
Author : Kenneth J. Dover
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Aristophanes: Clouds, Acharnians, Lysistrata written by Kenneth J. Dover and published by Bristol Classical Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides insight into the characteristically Greek elements of comedy which can be lost when reading in translation
Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Classical Texts
ISBN 13 : 9780856684586
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (845 download)
Download or read book Lysistrata written by Aristophanes and published by Classical Texts. This book was released on 1990 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lysistrata is the third and last of Aristophanes' peace plays. It is a dream of peace, of how the women could help to achieve an honourable settlement, conceived when Athens was going through its blackest, most desperate crisis since the Persian War. Though in modern times this is perhaps the most popular of his works, it has never before had an English translation that aims to be reliable in detail and that is fully annotated. The Greek text is based on a fuller body of evidence than any previous edition.It is astonishing to think that this play was first performed 2,400 years ago, because of all Aristophanes great comedies, Lysistrata seems to speak most clearly to our own age. It could perhaps be described as the world's first feminist drama.Text with facing translation, commentary and notes. 224pp(Aris and Phillips 1990).
Author : Stephen A. Nimis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781940997971
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (979 download)
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.
Author : Leymah Gbowee
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
ISBN 13 : 0732294088
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (322 download)
Download or read book Mighty Be Our Powers written by Leymah Gbowee and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2011 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mighty be their Powers chronicles the unthinkable violence Leymah Gbowee has faced throughout her life and the peace she has helped to broker by empowering her country women and others around the world to take action and change History.
