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Six Classical Greek Comedies: Birds, Frogs, Women in Power, the Woman from Samos, Cyclops and Alkestis

Six Classical Greek Comedies: Birds, Frogs, Women in Power, the Woman from Samos, Cyclops and Alkestis

Walton, J. Michael
McLeish, Kenneth
Walton, M.

Paperback

Series: Classical Dramatists

Plays

ISBN10: 041377130X
ISBN13: 9780413771308
Publisher: A&c Black 3pl
Published: Nov 27 2008
Pages: 378
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.80
Language: English

Six wide ranging classic plays with introduction by the editor

The comedies of the Athenian theatre not only lie at the root of Western drama, they also offer a unique insight into everyday life in ancient Greece. This selection of six wide ranging plays includes the comic fantasies of Aristophanes, which combine the ridiculous with serious satirical comment (Birds, Frogs, Women in Power); Menander's The Woman from Samos, a recognisable forebear of today's situation comedy; Euripides ribald satyr play, Cyclops, the only surviving example of the genre, and his Alkestis, a complex romance which gave a new face to comedy.

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