Three Plays by Aristophanes : Staging Women

ISBN-13: 9780415871327 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 272 str.

Jeffrey Henderson;Jeffrey Henderson

Opis

Unlike earlier translations of these plays, which typically censor, Henderson preserves intact the blunt and often obscene language, social and political protest and provocative fantasy. In addition each play has an introduction and explanatory notes.

Three Plays by Aristophanes presents Aristophanes' three women's comedies in a single volume and in unexpurgated, annotated translations. There are introductions to each play, and general introductory chapters cover Aristophanes, his theater and the women in his plays; an appendix contains relevant additional material from Aristophanes' lost comedies. Three Plays by Aristophanes will interest both readers of classical drama and students of gender studies and social history.

Recenzje

"The translations of the three plays, Lysistrata, Women at the Thesmophoria, and Assemblywomen, are straightforward, reliable, and fun to read. Readers interested in women's history and gender studies will especially welcome Henderson's contribution to their fields
." -- Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Spis treści

Introduction  I.  Aristophanes  II.  Old Comedy: Production and Competition III.  Performance  IV.  Women in Aristophanic Comedy  V.  Notes on the Translation  Lysistrata  Introduction  1.  The Historical Context  2.  The Play Women at the Thesmophoria  Introduction  1.  The Play  2.  Gender Transgression and Thesmophoria  3.  Genre Transgression and the Theater  Assemblywomen  Introduction  1.  The Historical Context  2.  The Women Take Power  Appendix: Selected Fragments of Lost Plays Notes Bibliography

O autorze

Jeffrey Henderson is Professor of Classical Studies at Boston University. He is the author of The Maculate Muse: Obscene Language in Attic Comedy and a critical edition, with commentary, of Aristophanes' Lysistrata, as well as numerous essays and articles on Aristophanes, Old Comedy and its social and historical background.