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Peace (Ancient Greek: Εἰρήνη Eirḗnē) is an Athenian Old Comedy written and produced by the Greek playwright Aristophanes.It won second prize at the City Dionysia where it was staged just a few days before the validation of Peace of Nicias, which promised to end the ten-year-old Peloponnesian War, in 421 BC.
Aristophanes is characterised as a celebrity playwright, and most of his plays have the title formula: One of Our [e.g] Slaves has an Enormous Knob (a reference to the exaggerated appendages worn by Greek comic actors) Aristophanes Against the World was a radio play by Martyn Wade and broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
Old Comedy survives through the eleven extant plays of Aristophanes and New Comedy through two mostly extant works of Menander. While Old Comedy parodied contemporary Athenian politics, leaders, and institutions, New Comedy features average citizens and parodies the cultural practices of the time.
The word "comedy" (Ancient Greek: κωμῳδία, kōmōidía) derives from the words for 'revel' and 'song' (κῶμος, kōmos, and ᾠδή, ōidē) and according to Aristotle [2] comic drama actually developed from song. The first official comedy at the City Dionysia was not staged until 487/6 BCE, [3] by which time tragedy had already ...
Pages in category "Plays by Aristophanes" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. ... Peace (play) Plutus (play) T. Thesmophoriazusae; W. The Wasps
Peace (421 BC) - by Aristophanes; The Trojan Women (415 BC) - Euripides; Lysistrata (411 BC) - Aristophanes; Journey's End (1928) - R. C. Sherriff; The Silver Tassie (1929) - Seán O'Casey; The Rumour by C.K.Munro 1929 at the Royal Court Theatre produced by Hilda Dallas; Post-Mortem (1930) - Noël Coward; For Services Rendered (1932) - Somerset ...
2016: Animator Richard Williams's Oscar-nominated short film, Prologue, is "the first part of a feature film loosely based on Aristophanes’ anti-war play Lysisrata." [58] 2016: Writer-director Matt Cooper's film comedy Is That a Gun in Your Pocket? is about a Texas town whose women go on a sex strike to make their menfolk abandon their love ...
The Wasps (Classical Greek: Σφῆκες, romanized: Sphēkes) is the fourth in chronological order of the eleven surviving plays by Aristophanes.It was produced at the Lenaia festival in 422 BC, during Athens' short-lived respite from the Peloponnesian War.