Synopsis
Aristophanes Plays 2 - The Wasps & The Clouds & The Birds & Festival Time & The Frogs
$25.99 Published by Methuen
Aristophanes is the oldest comedic writer in Western literature
Although only eleven of the some forty plays he wrote survive, his unique blend of slapstick, fantasy, bawy and political satire provide us with a vivid picture of the ancient Athenians - their social mores, their beliefs and their exuberant sense of occasion
Wasps is a lawcourt satire, Clouds a lighthearted look at education, Birds a search for the perfect society, Festival Time a feminist trial of Euripides and Frogs a celebration of and debate around the theatre