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Frogs and Other Plays Paperback – 30 July 2007
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The master of ancient Greek comic drama, Aristophanes combined slapstick, humour and cheerful vulgarity with acute political observations. In The Frogs, written during the Peloponnesian War, Dionysus descends to the Underworld to bring back a poet who can help Athens in its darkest hour, and stages a great debate to help him decide between the traditional wisdom of Aeschylus and the brilliant modernity of Euripides. The clash of generations and values is also the object of Aristophanes' satire in The Wasps, in which an old-fashioned father and his loose-living son come to blows and end up in court. And in The Poet and the Women, Euripides, accused of misogyny, persuades a relative to infiltrate an all-women festival to find out whether revenge is being plotted against him.
- Print length288 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date30 July 2007
- Dimensions13 x 1.8 x 19.61 cm
- ISBN-109780140449693
- ISBN-13978-0140449693
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Translated by David Barrett
Revised Translation with an Introduction and Notes by Shomit Dutta
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- ASIN : 0140449698
- Publisher : Penguin
- Publication date : 30 July 2007
- Edition : 1st
- Language : English
- Print length : 288 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9780140449693
- ISBN-13 : 978-0140449693
- Item weight : 215 g
- Dimensions : 13 x 1.8 x 19.61 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: 133,648 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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- Reviewed in Australia on 19 March 2024Format: PaperbackVerified PurchaseBook came in good condition
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- TylerReviewed in Canada on 29 December 2014
3.0 out of 5 stars I do not like the formatting of the book
Format: PaperbackVerified PurchaseIt is a book with a few of Aristophanes' plays in English translation. I do not like the formatting of the book; the lines are not always properly formatted and it is frequently difficult to cite specific lines because there are too many lines in each block of ten.
I bought a different edition for the class and was much happier with it for it was much better formatted.
- William AxtellReviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 July 2013
5.0 out of 5 stars Might have been written today!
Format: PaperbackVerified PurchaseI love Aristophanes. He is so funny and yet, through all the crudity, is a sharp ability to puncture human pretentiousness and bring to light all everyone's instinctive weaknesses. In this book are three of his plays and the most astonishing thing is how much the characters feel like people today. Considering the vast gulf that, in truth, exists between us in so many regards, it is fascinating to see the same mix of sons who think they know best, cowards and inveterate conservatives as today.
This is edition is also very good. Bar my minor annoyance that a couple of the cruder passages were toned down (I know I'm not dealing with Last of the Summer Wine!)the notes were very full and explained a lot of fascinating detail, which helped contributed to that other advantage of reading Aristophanes, apart from enjoyment, that of getting a real perspective on Classical Athenian society.
- Gyan Jyoti SonowalReviewed in India on 20 April 2025
5.0 out of 5 stars Best Old Comedy Play
Format: PaperbackVerified PurchaseProbably the best work of Aristophanes that doesn't explicitly mentions Peloponessian war.
The play Frogs is the one that attracted me much.
The Debate between Dionysus and real-life master greek tragedians- Aeschylus & Euripides.
No doubt about Aristophanes, the father of Old Comedy
Gyan Jyoti SonowalBest Old Comedy Play
Reviewed in India on 20 April 2025
The play Frogs is the one that attracted me much.
The Debate between Dionysus and real-life master greek tragedians- Aeschylus & Euripides.
No doubt about Aristophanes, the father of Old Comedy
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- Mary RossiReviewed in the United States on 10 July 2015
5.0 out of 5 stars Frogs is an ancient Greek play as as they all ...
Format: KindleVerified PurchaseFrogs is an ancient Greek play as as they all are, not simple straightforward, girl gets guy kind of plot. It is highly amusing but to understand the humor, some knowledge of ancient greek playwrights and gods is necessary.