Birds, Lysistrata, Assembly-Women, Wealth - A New Verse Translation With Introduction and Notes

Zusatztext The translation is accurate enough to be usable for any academic or educational purpose for which the use of translations is acceptable at all ... H.'s select bibliography (in English only) is an excellent guide for those wishing to study Ar. more deeply than the plan of htis series allows. Klappentext This new verse translation of Aristophanes' comedies offers one of the world's great comic dramatists in a form which is both historically faithful and theatrically vigorous. Aristophanes' plays were produced for the festival theatre of classical Athens in the fifth century BC and remarkably encompass the whole gamut of humor, from brilliantly inventive fantasy to obscene vulgarity. There is a substantial general introduction to the author and introductory essays for each of the plays, as well as full explanatory notes and an index of names. Zusammenfassung This new translation (the first complete verse translation of Aristophanes' comedies to appear for more than twenty-five years) makes freshly available one of the most remarkable comic playwrights in the entire Western tradition. Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, which flourished during the heyday of classical Athenian culture in the fifth century BC, and his plays are characterized by extraordinary combinations of fantasy and satire, sophistication and vulgarity, formality and freedom. This special mixture of qualities calls for a range and flexibility of linguistic resources which only a verse translation can supply. The present translation balances historical fidelity with literary and dramatic vigour, and conveys some of the unique variety of Aristophanic comic theatre. There is a substantial general introduction to the author and introductory essays to each of the plays, as well as full explanatory notes and an index of names.

Product details

• Authors: Aristophanes
• Assisted by: Stephen Halliwell (Editor), Stephen Halliwell (Translation), Stephen (Professor of Greek Halliwell (Translation), Halliwell Stephen (Translation)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.09.1997
• EAN: 9780198149934
• ISBN: 978-0-19-814993-4
• No. of pages: 378
• Series: Oxford World's Classics (Hardc; Oxford World's Classics (Hardc
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; DRAMA / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Plays, Playscripts, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: plays and playwrights