Frogs and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
by Aristophanes
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Author: AristophanesEditor: Shomit Dutta
Introduction: Shomit Dutta
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-04-06
ISBN: 0140449698
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Book Reviews of Frogs and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
Book Review: Hilarious collection of plays
Summary: 5 Stars
Comedy is notoriously difficult to translate--not only do some cultures have entirely different senses of humor, the word-play and deft cultural allusions that make good comedy are often untranslatable. Against these odds, translator David Barrett has successfully brought Aristophanes into modern English with all his wit, sarcasm, and sly digs at well-known Greeks.
The plays collected here--Frogs, Wasps, and Women at the Thesmophoria--are rendered so well that I was laughing all the way through. The translations are remarkably true to the originals and well foot-noted where the translator has diverged from the text, usually to make a joke an English-speaking reader would understand.
Frogs and Other Plays is a fast, easy, and very funny read, well worth the time for anyone interested in ancient Greece, drama, or good old-fashioned comedy.
Recommended.
Summary of Frogs and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
The master of ancient Greek comic drama, Aristophanes combined slapstick, humour and cheerful vulgarity with acute political observations. In "The Frogs", written during the Peloponnesian War, Dionysus descends to the Underworld to bring back a poet who can help Athens in its darkest hour, and stages a great debate to help him decide between the traditional wisdom of Aeschylus and the brilliant modernity of Euripides. The clash of generations and values is also the object of Aristophanes' satire in "The Wasps", in which an old-fashioned father and his loose-living son come to blows and end up in court. And in "The Poet and the Women", Euripides, accused of misogyny, persuades a relative to infiltrate an all-women festival to find out whether revenge is being plotted against him.Classics Books
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