Three Plays by Aristophanes: Staging Women (The New Classical Canon)

By Aristophanes

Book Overview

These three plays by the great comic playwright Aristophanes (c. 446-386 BCE), the well-known Lysistrata, and the less familiar Women at the Thesmophoria and Assemblywomen, are the earliest surviving... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415907446
• ISBN13: 9780415907446
• Release Date: August 1996
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.8" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Can You Say That?

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.