Lysistrata

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Nick Hern Books, 1996 - Drama - 80 pages

From Nick Hern's series Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price, a translation from Patric Dickinson of Aristophanes' classic tale of a sex strike led by the women of Greece to force their husbands to end the Peloponnesian Wars. Edited and introduced by Kenneth McLeish.

About the author (1996)

Aristophanes (born c. 447 BC) was a comic playwright of ancient Athens. His surviving works belong to a genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy, and are some of the most influential comedies ever written.

Bibliographic information

Title Lysistrata
Volume 20 of Drama classics
Author Aristophanes
Editor Kenneth McLeish
Translated by Patric Dickinson
Edition reprint, revised
Publisher Nick Hern Books, 1996
ISBN 1854593250, 9781854593252
Length 80 pages
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Drama / Ancient & Classical
Drama / European / General
Drama / General
   
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