Three plays by Aristophanes : staging women / / translated and edited by Jeffrey Henderson

• Autore: Aristophanes
• Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2010
• Edizione: 2nd ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (268 p.)
• Disciplina: 882.01
• Soggetto topico: Women - Greece - Drama
• Soggetto geografico: Athens (Greece) Drama
• Altri autori: HendersonJeffrey <1946->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface to the Revised Edition; Preface to the First Edition; Introduction; Lysistrata; Women at the Thesmophoria; Assemblywomen; Appendix: Selected Fragments of Lost Plays; Notes; Bibliography
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 portrayals of contemporary women in the European literary tradition. These plays provide a unique glimpse of women not only in their familiar domestic roles but also in relation to household and city, religion and government, war and peace, theater and festival, and, of course, to men. This freshly revised edition presents, for the first time in a single volume, all three plays in faithful modern
• Altri titoli varianti: Staging women
• Titolo autorizzato: Three plays by Aristophanes
• ISBN: 1-135-17375-3; 1-135-17376-1; 1-282-59033-2; 9786612590337; 0-203-86134-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910827396403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: New classical canon.