Research Catalog

Title

Three plays by Aristophanes : staging women / translated and edited by Jeffrey Henderson.

Author

Aristophanes.

Publication

Abingdon, Oxon [England]; New York : Routledge, 2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

Henderson, Jeffrey, 1946-

Description

xiii, 253 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

"These three plays by the great comic playwright Aristophanes, the well-known Lysistrata and the less familiar Women at the Thesmophoria and Assemblywomen, are the earliest surviving portrayals of contemporary women in the European literary tradition. These plays provide a unique glimpse of women not only in their familiar domestic roles but also in relation to household and city, religion and government, war and peace, theater and festival, and, of course, to men." "This freshly revised edition presents, for the first time in a single volume, all three plays in faithful modern translations that preserve intact Aristophanes' blunt and often obscene language, sparkling satire, political provocation, and beguiling fantasy. Alongside the translations are ample introductions and notes covering the politically engaged genre of Aristophanic comedy in general and issues of sex and gender in particular, fully updated since the first edition in light of recent scholarship. An appendix contains fragments of lost plays of Aristophanes that also featured women, and an up-to-date bibliography provides guidance for further exploration." "In addition to their timeless humor and biting satire, the plays are unique and invaluable documents in the history of Western sexuality and gender, and they offer strikingly prescient speculations about the social and political future of the female sex."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

The new classical canon

Uniform Title

• Works. Selections. English. 2010
• New classical canon.

Alternative Title

• Works. 2010
• Staging women

Subject

• Aristophanes > Translations into English
• Women > Greece > Drama
• Athens (Greece) > Drama

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-253).

Language (note)

• Translated from the Ancient Greek.

Contents

Lysistrata -- Women at the Thesmophoria -- Assemblywomen.

Call Number

MWEM (Aristophanes) 13-3062

ISBN

• 9780415871327 (hbk. : alk. paper)
• 0415871328 (hbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780415871310 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 041587131X (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780203861349 (ebk.)
• 0203861345 (ebk.)

LCCN

2009028262

OCLC

424454984

Author

Aristophanes.

Title

Three plays by Aristophanes : staging women / translated and edited by Jeffrey Henderson.

Imprint

Abingdon, Oxon [England]; New York : Routledge, 2010.

Edition

2nd ed.

Series

The new classical canon

New classical canon.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-253).

Language

Translated from the Ancient Greek.

Added Author

Henderson, Jeffrey, 1946-

Research Call Number

MWEM (Aristophanes) 13-3062