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Lysistrata
Lysistrata
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Author: Aristophanes Translated by: Jeffrey Henderson Publisher: Focus Publishing Series: Focus Classical Library Format: Softcover # of Pages: 80 Pub. Date: 1988 ISBN-10: 0941051021 ISBN-13: 9780941051026
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About the Play:
Lysistrata is a full-length comedy by
Aristophanes, translated by Jeffrey Henderson. This edition
brings the classic play about the first-ever female strike
completely up to date with modern scholarship, providing the first
complete account of its history and many new insights on the comic
theatre and its social and political context.
Lysistrata
blends boisterous comedy and an earnest call for peace. Lysistrata,
the first comic heroine, organizes a panhellenic conjugal sex strike
of young wives until their husbands end the war between Athens and
Sparta while the old women have taken over the treasury in the
Citadel of Athena to stop funds from going to the Peloponnesian War.
This English translation of Lysistrata appeals to
modern audiences because of its lively and imaginative plot, strong
and memorable heroine, good jokes, and appeal for peace and tolerance
between nations and between the sexes. Noted Greek scholar Jeffery
Henderson puts the work in historical and cultural context in his
comprehensive introduction. Suggestions for further reading, notes,
and map are also included.
Lysistrata was first performed in classical
Athens in 411 BC and is the most popular of Aristophanes'
plays.
Cast: 4 women, 2 men (alternate casting 3 women, 2
men with doubling)
What people say:
"Henderson's
Lysistrata is lively, cheerfully vulgar, and genuinely funny...."
— The Classical Outlook
About the Playwright:
Aristophanes
(c. 446-386 BC) was Athens's greatest comic playwright, whose plays
define the genre of Old Comedy. His was a precise, poetic vision
articulated in pin-sharp images, his works being some of the most
revealing about the society for which he wrote. Although only eleven
of the some forty plays he wrote survive, his unique blend of
slapstick, fantasy, bawdy and political satire provide you with a
vivid picture of the ancient Athenians – their social mores, their
beliefs and their exuberant sense of occasion.
Jeffrey Henderson
is known for his pioneering work on Greek drama and politics, and for
his translations of the comic playwright Aristophanes. He is William
Goodwin Aurelio Professor of Greek Language and Literature at Boston
University, and General Editor of the Loeb Classical Library.
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