Aristophanes Plays: 1: Acharnians; Knights; Peace; Lysistrata

Aristophanes,

dic 2013 · A&C Black

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Reissue of Aristophanes' most famous plays in the Methuen Classical Greek Dramatists series



Aristophanes was a unique writer for the comic stage as well as one of the most revealing about the society for which he wrote.

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Kenneth McLeish studied Classics and Music at Worcester College, Oxford. Once a full-time translator, author and dramatist, he published extensively including The Good Reading Guide, Shakespeare's People, The Theatre of Aristophanes, Companion to the Arts in the Twentieth Century, Myth, The Listener's Guide to Classical Music and Crucial Classics (both with Valerie McLeish) and The Bloomsbury Guide to Human Thought (as general editor). His original plays and his translations - from ancient Greek drama, as well as from Strindberg, Ibsen Moliere and Strindberg - have been widely performed, most notably by the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company.