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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.
They explored the psychology of the mind through monologues, focusing on one's inner thoughts, the central causes of their emotional conflicts, dramatizing emotion in a way that became central to Roman tragedy. Besides Seneca's works, a single example of fabula praetexta (tragedy based on Roman subjects) survives. [21] [22] [23] [24]
Andrew David Irvine's Lysistrata is a free adaptation of Aristophanes’ famous 411 BCE comedy, especially adapted for modern performance. The adaptation had its premiere workshop performance in Epidaurus, Greece, under the direction of Anna Lazou, on May 12, 2024.
Old Comedy's emphasis on real personalities and local issues makes the plays difficult to appreciate today without the aid of scholarly commentaries—see for example articles on The Knights, The Wasps and Peace for lists of topical references. The topicality of the plays had unique consequences for both the writing and the production of the ...
Lysistrata (/ l aɪ ˈ s ɪ s t r ə t ə / or / ˌ l ɪ s ə ˈ s t r ɑː t ə /; Attic Greek: Λυσιστράτη, Lysistrátē, lit. ' army disbander ') is an ancient Greek comedy by Aristophanes, originally performed in classical Athens in 411 BC.
The plays of Aristophanes are the only full-length examples of the genre of Old Comedy to have survived from antiquity. This makes them centrally important to modern understandings of the genre. The themes of Old Comedy included: Inclusive comedy: Old Comedy provided a variety of entertainments for a diverse audience. It accommodated a serious ...
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 ...
Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 212 (P. Oxy. 212 or P. Oxy. II 212) consists of three fragments of a comedy of Aristophanes, written in Greek.It was discovered in Oxyrhynchus.The manuscript was written on papyrus in the form of a roll.