Lauren Taaffe

Aristophanes and Women (Routledge Revivals) (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Aristophanes and Women, first published in 1993, investigates the workings of the great Athenian comedian's 'women plays' in an attempt to discern why they were in fact probably quite funny to their original audiences. It is argued that modern students, scholars, and dramatists need to consider much more closely the conditions of the plays' ancient productions when evaluating their ostensible themes.

Three plays are focused upon: Lysistrata, Thesmophoriazusae, and Ecclesiazusae. All seem to speak quite eloquently to contemporary concerns about women's rights, the value of women's work, and the relationships between women and war, literary representation and politics.

On the one hand, Professor Taaffe tries to retrieve what an ancient Athenian audience may have l appreciated about these plays and what their central theses may have meant within that culture. On the other hand, Aristophanes is discussed from the perspective of a late twentieth-century, specifically female, reader.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317700142
• Artikelnr.: 68423886

Autorenporträt

Lauren Taaffe

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
Preface
List of abbreviations
Introduction 1. The Representations of Female Figures in Aristophanes' Plays before 411 BC 2. Women as Women, Men as Men: Lysistrata 3. Men as Women: Thesmophoriazusae 4. Women as Men: Ecclesiazusae 5. The Legacy of Aristophanes' Women
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Index of passages discussed.