Looking at Lysistrata: Eight Essays and a New Version of Aristophanes' Provocative ComedyA&C Black, 1 de nov. de 2013 - 168 páginas 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. |
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2 The Upsidedown World of Aristophanes Lysistrata | 20 |
3 The Many Faces of Lysistrata | 29 |
4 Lysistrata the Warrior | 37 |
The People of Lysistrata | 49 |
6 Fantasy and Plot in Lysistrata | 61 |
7 On Misunderstanding the Lysistrata Productively | 70 |
8 Lysistratas on the Modern Stage | 80 |
Lysistrata or Loose Strife a modern version | 91 |
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Acropolis Aeschylus Alcibiades Ambassador ancient Greek Aphrodite Arab Aristo Aristophanes Aristophanic comedy Artemis Athena Polias Athenian and Spartan audience battle celebrated century characters Chorus of Old Cinesias Claire comic conflict context Dick Dionysus drama dressed El-Ramly Enter Fanny Euripides Exit Fanny fantasy female festival fifth-century fight gender give God’s sake goddess Greece Hoodie husbands Hyperbolus James Robson jokes Kotzamani Lampito Lenaea look Lorna Hardwick Lucy Lysimache Lysis Lysistrata Project Magistrate male Martin Revermann mean Melanippe men’s modern Myrrhine negotiations Nikki oath Old Women organised Oxford peace Peloponnesian Peloponnesian War perhaps Persian phanes play play’s plot political priestess of Athena Proboulos reading reconciliation role scene sex-strike sexual sexy slaves Sommerstein song Spartans stage stop swear tell theatre theatrical there’s thing Thucydides tion tragedy translation trata What’s woman wool you’re Zeus