Looking at Lysistrata: Eight Essays and a New Version of Aristophanes' Provocative Comedy by Stuttard, David

Looking at Lysistrata (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781853997365)

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Looking at Lysistrata: Eight Essays and a New Version of Aristophanes' Provocative Comedy by Stuttard, David

Looking at Lysistrata

$34.95
Looking at Lysistrata: Eight Essays and a New Version of Aristophanes' Provocative Comedy by Stuttard, David

Looking at Lysistrata

$34.95
Format: Paperback
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In Aristophanes' Lysistrata, the women of Athens, fed up with the war against Sparta, go on a sex strike and barricade themselves into the acropolis to persuade their husbands to vote against the war. It is the most often performed of all Aristophanes' comedies. It is also, perhaps, the most misunderstood. This collection of essays by eight leading academics - written for sixth-form students and the general public alike - sets the play firmly in its historical and social context, while exploring Aristophanes' purpose in writing it and considering the responses of modern audiences and directors. The collection has been assembled and edited by David Stuttard, whose energetic new performing version of the play is included in this volume.

Contributors include: Alan Beale; Edith Hall; Lorna Hardwick; James Morwood; Martin Revermann; James Robson; Alan H. Sommerstein; Michael Walton.

Author: David Stuttard
ISBN-10: 1853997366
ISBN-13: 9781853997365
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 03/03/2011
Pages: 168
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2010 pg. 272
By David Stuttard
By David Stuttard
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David Stuttard has directed his own translations and adaptations of Greek drama throughout the UK and in classical theatres in Turkey and Albania. He has edited numerous books on Greek tragedy, and is the author of "An Introduction to Trojan Women" (2005) and, with Sam Moorhead, of "AD 410, The Year That Shook Rome" (2010).

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