Three Plays by Aristophanes: Staging Women (New Classical Canon) 2nd Edition

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These three plays by the great comic playwright Aristophanes (c. 446-386 BCE), the well-known Lysistrata, and the less familiar Women at the Thesmophoria and Assemblywomen, are the earliest surviving portrayals of contemporary women in the European literary tradition. These plays provide a unique glimpse of women not only in their familiar domestic roles but also in relation to household and city, religion and government, war and peace, theater and festival, and, of course, to men.

This freshly revised edition presents, for the first time in a single volume, all three plays in faithful modern translations that preserve intact Aristophanes’ blunt and often obscene language, sparkling satire, political provocation, and beguiling fantasy. Alongside the translations are ample introductions and notes covering the politically engaged genre of Aristophanic comedy in general and issues of sex and gender in particular, which have been fully updated since the first edition in light of recent scholarship. An appendix contains fragments of lost plays of Aristophanes that also featured women, and an up-to-date bibliography provides guidance for further exploration.

In addition to their timeless humor and biting satire, the plays are unique and invaluable documents in the history of western sexuality and gender, and they offer strikingly prescient speculations about the social and political future of the female sex.

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"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

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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.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Routledge; 2nd edition (March 8, 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 041587131X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0415871310
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.14 x 0.62 x 9.21 inches

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- #179 in Ancient & Classical Dramas & Plays
- #193 in Ancient History (Books)

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THX1138

Nicely done

Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2021

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I'll join the chorus of praise for Henderson's translations of these plays. This does not come off stilted or sanitized and on the other hand does not go overboard with the colloquial. While Aristophanes' Vaudeville humor comes through, we all need help with the text and the footnotes are great. As the title suggests, the texts are chosen for their focus on women in ancient Athens. That does not seem to bias the translation and it provides ground for some informative commentary.

I have several different translations of the plays. This and the Penguin editions are the ones I prefer. The Penguin editions suffer from cheap printing and small format, not a major complaint as the translations and notes are fine. But this Routledge edition is a nicely produced book, larger format (the pages don't feel crowded), clean printing, better paper, line numbers in the margins.

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Was in great condition! Also

Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2016

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Was in great condition! Also, a pretty interesting/comical read considering the works inside had to be read for a class.

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Cynthia McClelland

Very fun to read

Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2014

These plays will crack you up! Very fun to read. If you are lucky you are ordering this book for a class. Hope you get to read some of the plays out loud like we did.

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Paul Casey

Can You Say That?

Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2000

Let me start by saying that this book has the best translations of Aristophanes that I've ever read. Henderson's translations contain really obscene language. That is not to say that I only liked it for the swears. The flow of the play with this obscenity is like the flow of a modern comedy. Why should something as great as a classical play be subject to censorship? Thanks to Henderson and his translation, we now know exactly what the Athenians saw when they watched Aristophanes.

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kdub89

Hilarious.

Reviewed in the United States on June 3, 2013

These plays are all just so funny. The translation was perfect, helped keep the funniness of the Greek original. So much cross dressing and making fun of Euripides, you'll want to read all of them.

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