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Title: Lysistrata by Aristophanes, Douglass Parker, William Arrowsmith ISBN: 0-451-52789-5 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 06 March, 2001 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (17 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Fantastic!!
Comment: This is probably the most entertaining play I've ever read, and it was written more than 2,000 years ago! Aristophanes brilliantly critiques the rigid gender roles of ancient Greek society in several dozen hilarious pages.
Aristophanes writes of a group of Greek women who, in protest of war, refuse to have sex with their husbands, and the plot is a glorious success. Aristophanes depicts men begging their wives for sex, and paints a picture of Greek women not very dissimilar to the women of contemporary Western society.
"Lysistrata" is a crucial reading for anyone interested in Greek history, feminism, or anyone who just wants to read a devastatingly funny comedy about sex.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!
Rating: 5
Summary: A randy look at greek history
Comment: Lysistrata, wife of an influential Athenian has had it with 20+ years of war with Sparta and calls on her sisters from around Greece (including Sparta) to plot to end the war once and for all. The two-pronged plan is elegant in its simplicity: take over the treasury so that no more money can be spent on war, and deny their husbands marital congress until they agree to make peace with each other. The beauty of the play (and what makes it enjoyable to the 21st century reader) is that it speaks to the most basic needs of the human condition while allowing the reader to freely translate the action to modern times. Part of the fun is envisioning the staging of this play - the battle between the women and the graybeards (a slightly distressing scene since my acquisition of an AARP card) - and the approach of the envoys for the peace talks whose obvious sexual distress assures the women of the impending success of their plan provoked an image that actually had me laughing out loud. All in all, it helps support the notion that the classics can be (and should be) fun.
Rating: 1
Summary: Revolting and insulting.
Comment: "Lysistrata" is truly a revolting play that pokes fun at women. They say Aristophanes thought women to be more than toys for their men, but I see the opposite. I think Aristophanes made a satire out of women and the only thing they are good at: sex and reproducing male babies. This is no compliment. To think that the only way women can change their husband's minds would be by withholding intercourse. This is preposterous! I found this play derogatory with ill humor. I do not recommend.
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Title: Medea by Euripides ISBN: 0486275485 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 19 April, 1993 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
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Title: Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry ISBN: 0486426874 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 13 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $2.00 |
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Title: Antigone by Sophocles ISBN: 0486278042 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 12 October, 1993 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
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Title: Woza Albert by Percy Mtwa, Mbongeni Ngema, Barney Simon ISBN: 0413530000 Publisher: Methuen Drama Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Oresteia Trilogy : Agamemnon, the Libation-Bearers and the Furies by Aeschylus ISBN: 0486292428 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 24 September, 1996 List Price(USD): $2.50 |
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