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Pages in category "Films based on works by Aristophanes" This category contains only the following page. This list may not reflect recent changes. W.
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.
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 ...
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 play is notable for ...
Pages in category "Plays by Aristophanes" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. The Acharnians;
Good Fun Doesn't Age. The 1980s produced many teen comedies, which were, in all likelihood, made in the spirit of good fun. Unfortunately, 40 years later, many are jarring in their tone-deafness.
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 ...