Looking at Lysistrata

Looking at Lysistrata by David Stuttard

In Aristophanes' Lysistrata, the women of Athens, fed up with the war against Sparta, go on a sex strike and barricade themselves into the acropolis to persuade their husbands to vote against the war. It is the most often performed of all Aristophanes' comedies. It is also, perhaps, the most misunderstood. This collection of essays by eight leading academics - written for sixth-form students and the general public alike - sets the play firmly in its historical and social context, while exploring Aristophanes' purpose in writing it and considering the responses of modern audiences and directors. The collection has been assembled and edited by David Stuttard, whose energetic new performing version of the play is included in this volume.

Contributors include: Alan Beale; Edith Hall; Lorna Hardwick; James Morwood; Martin Revermann; James Robson; Alan H. Sommerstein; Michael Walton.

Stuttard, David: - David Stuttard is founder of the theatre company, Actors of Dionysus, translator of numerous Greek plays, and author of titles including AD 410, The Year That Shook Rome (2009), Looking at Lysistrata (Bloomsbury, 2010), The Romans Who Shaped Britain (2012), A History of Ancient Greece in Fifty Lives (2014) and Looking at Medea (Bloomsbury, 2014).

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ISBN 13	9781853997365
ISBN 10	1853997366
Title	Looking at Lysistrata
Author	David Stuttard
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published	2011-03-03
Number of pages	168
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