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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.
It is for this reason, Oscar Wilde tells us, that Aristophanes’ plays have “more in common with modern ways of looking at things, more in common with the conditions of the modern stage, especially in certain directions – burlesque, extravaganza, musical farce, and even ‘pantomime,’ than with the earlier and graver products of the ...
Old Comedy displays similarities to modern-day political satires such as Dr. Strangelove (1964) and the televised buffoonery of Monty Python and Saturday Night Live. [63] George Bernard Shaw was profoundly influenced by Aristophanian comedy-writing. According to Robert R. Speckhard, "like Shaw, Aristophanes wrote comedies of ideas, and, though ...
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.
The Clouds (Ancient Greek: Νεφέλαι, Nephelai) is a Greek comedy play written by the playwright Aristophanes.A lampooning of intellectual fashions in classical Athens, it was originally produced at the City Dionysia in 423 BC and was not as well received as the author had hoped, coming last of the three plays competing at the festival that year.
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Lysistrata Jones is a musical comedy adaptation of Aristophanes' comedy Lysistrata. [1] The book is by Douglas Carter Beane and the score is by Lewis Flinn. [1] After a critically acclaimed off-Broadway run with Transport Group Theatre Company, [2] the show opened on Broadway in December 2011 [3] and closed in January 2012. The show tells the ...