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These are the Cliff Notes on Aristophanes Comedies. Lysistrata, The Birds, The Clouds, and The Frogs. Aristophaness plays were comedies, satires, and politically charged. Lysistrata is perhaps his most famous, dealing with the power of sex and war in a society where women have control.
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Aristophanes' Lysistrata The Birds The Clouds The Frogs
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by Gary Carey, M.A. University of Colorado and James L. Roberts, Ph.D. Department of English University of Nebraska
including
Life and Background
List of Characters
Summaries and Commentaries
Lysistrata
The Birds
The Clouds
The Frogs
Suggested Essay Questions
Selected Bibliography
INCORPORATED LINCOLN, NEBRASKA 68501
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Editor
Gary Carey, M.A. University of Colorado
Consulting Editor
James L. Roberts, Ph.D. Department of English University of Nebraska
ISBN 0-8220-0776-2 Copyright 1983 by Cliffs Notes, Inc. All Rights Reserved Printed in U.S.A.
1999 Printing
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Contents
Life and Background
5
Lysistrata
List of Characters
17
Summaries and Commentaries
18
The Birds
List of Characters
34
Summaries and Commentaries
35
The Clouds
List of Characters
52
Summaries and Commentaries
52
The Frogs
List of Characters
67
Summaries and Commentaries
68
Suggested Essay Questions
77
Selected Bibliography
77
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Life and Background
A well-known American celebrity, being interviewed on TV, was asked about his singing career, and he said, ''I sing mostly country-western songs because they tell it how it is." In a sense, that is what Aristophanes tried to do in his comedies: "tell it how it is." For over fifty years, the Greek stage had been dominated by superlative, but often depressing and emotional tragedies. Suddenly, Aristophanes introduced first-rate earthy, comic dramas to the Greek audiences. Theater has never been the same since. Aristophanes' comedies were radical and lasting innovations.
Aristophanes, however, was not a man whom one would label as "funny"; his plays are not filled with a series of one-liners. He was a very serious comic writer, keenly aware of his debt to earlier dramatistsin particular, to Aeschylus, the playwright often referred to today as "the father of Greek tragedy." Both Aeschylus and Aristophanes held similar viewpoints about Athens, and readers can better understand Aristophanes' comedies if they have some knowledge of the cultural context that preceded Aristophanes and if they have some knowledge of Aeschylus and other early Greek dramatists.
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