THE
BURLESQUE COMEDIES OF ARISTOPHANES
City-State
Press
212 pages (with index),
non-fiction, paperback, published May 2001,
available on order from Amazon online and any bookstore.
ISBN 0-9709265-1-0 Price:
$ 14.95
5 essays on Classical
Athens (on Democracy, Slavery, Sex, God, and War) provide vital background
information to blow-by-blow descriptions of the eleven surviving bawdy,
cutting, ultra-democratic plays of the comedy genius.
The
detailed storylines contain choice morsels of dialogue.
Emphasis
placed on Ancient Athens’ participatory democracy and the
functions of the comic theatre in that democracy.
Seeks
to capture the satirizing-and-burlesquing spirit of a unique politically-savvy
and creative humorist.
Comedy
topics: anti-war strategies, utopias, blistering attacks on the most
powerful and unscrupulous man in Athens, a quite wonderful burlesque
satire on Money, plus Thesmophoriazusae (a male chauvinist in woman’s
clothing disrupts a feminist meeting).
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