The Knights - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Knights write by . This book was released on 1978. The Knights available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Knights, Peace, the Birds, the Assemblywomen Wealth
The Knights, Peace, the Birds, the Assemblywomen Wealth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Knights, Peace, the Birds, the Assemblywomen Wealth write by Aristophanes. This book was released on 1986. The Knights, Peace, the Birds, the Assemblywomen Wealth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Knights ; [and], Peace ; [and], The Birds ; [and], The Assemblywomen ; [and], Wealth
The Knights ; [and], Peace ; [and], The Birds ; [and], The Assemblywomen ; [and], Wealth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Knights ; [and], Peace ; [and], The Birds ; [and], The Assemblywomen ; [and], Wealth write by Aristophanes. This book was released on 1977. The Knights ; [and], Peace ; [and], The Birds ; [and], The Assemblywomen ; [and], Wealth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, the exuberant, satirical form of festival drama which flourished during the heyday of classical Athenian culture in the fifth century BC. His plays are characterized by extraordinary combinations of fantasy and satire, sophistication and vulgarity, formality and freedom. Birds is an escapist fantasy in which two dissatisfied Athenians, in defiance of men and gods, bring about a city of birds, the eponymous Cloudcuckooland. In Lysistrata the heroine of the play organizes a sex-strike and the wives of Athens occupy the Akropolis in an attempt to restore peace to the city. The main source of comedy in the Assembly-Women is a similar usurpation of male power as the women attempt to reform Athenian society along utopian-communist lines. Finally, Wealth is Aristophanes' last surviving comedy, in which Ploutos, the god of wealth is cured of his blindness and the remarkable social consequences of his new discrimination are exemplified.
The Knights
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Found in Translation
Found in Translation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Found in Translation write by J. Michael Walton. This book was released on 2006-07-06. Found in Translation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In considering the practice and theory of translating Classical Greek plays into English from a theatrical perspective, Found in Translation, first published in 2006, also addresses the wider issues of transferring any piece of theatre from a source into a target language. The history of translating classical tragedy and comedy, here fully investigated, demonstrates how through the ages translators have, wittingly or unwittingly, appropriated Greek plays and made them reflect socio-political concerns of their own era. Chapters are devoted to topics including verse and prose, mask and non-verbal language, stage directions and subtext and translating the comic. Among the plays discussed as 'case studies' are Aeschylus' Agamemnon, Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus and Euripides' Medea and Alcestis. The book concludes with a consideration of the boundaries between 'translation' and 'adaptation', followed by an appendix of every translation of Greek tragedy and comedy into English from the 1550s to the present day.
