- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (Aug 27 1996)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0415907446
- ISBN-13: 978-0415907446
- Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15 x 1.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 340 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #997,100 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The translations of the three plays, Lysistrata, Women at the Thesmophoria, and Assemblywomen, are straightforward, reliable, and fun to read. Readers interested in women's history and gender studies will especially welcome Henderson's contribution to their fields
. -- Bryn Mawr Classical Review
. -- Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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Three Plays by Aristophanes presents Aristophanes' three women's comedies in a single volume and in unexpurgated, annotated translations. There are introductions to each play, and general introductory chapters cover Aristophanes, his theater and the women in his plays; an appendix contains relevant additional material from Aristophanes' lost comedies. Three Plays by Aristophanes will interest both readers of classical drama and students of gender studies and social history.
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Lysistrata was produced at the Lenaia of 411, twenty years into the Peloponnesian War, a panhellenic struggle pitting Athens and her island empire against Sparta and her allies. Read the first page
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Can You Say That?,
This review is from: Three Plays by Aristophanes: Staging Women (Paperback)
Let me start by saying that this book has the best translations of Aristophanes that I've ever read. Henderson's translations contain really obscene language. That is not to say that I only liked it for the swears. The flow of the play with this obscenity is like the flow of a modern comedy. Why should something as great as a classical play be subject to censorship? Thanks to Henderson and his translation, we now know exactly what the Athenians saw when they watched Aristophanes.
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Can You Say That?,
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This review is from: Three Plays by Aristophanes: Staging Women (Paperback)
Let me start by saying that this book has the best translations of Aristophanes that I've ever read. Henderson's translations contain really obscene language. That is not to say that I only liked it for the swears. The flow of the play with this obscenity is like the flow of a modern comedy. Why should something as great as a classical play be subject to censorship? Thanks to Henderson and his translation, we now know exactly what the Athenians saw when they watched Aristophanes.
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