Aristophanes

Broschiertes Buch

Aristophanes

Plays One

Beschreibung

This mixture of social and political satire, bawdy with passages of lyrical beauty, offers an insight into ancient Athens and its theatre. McLeish also has translated the plays of Sophocles and Aeschylus.

Autor

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 us with a vivid picture of the ancient Athenians - their social mores, their beliefs and their exuberant sense of occasion.

Produktdetails

• Classical Dramatists
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1993
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 374g
• ISBN-13: 9780413669001
• ISBN-10: 0413669009
• Artikelnr.: 22127231