num_pages: 384
description: This new verse translation of Aristophanes' comedies offers one of the world's great comic dramatists in a form that is both historically faithful and theatrically vigorous. Aristophanes' plays were produced for the festival theater of classical Athens in the fifth century BC and encompass thewhole gamut of humor, from brilliantly inventive fantasy to obscene vulgarity. This edition includes a substantial general introduction and introductory essays for each of the plays, as well as full explanatory notes and an index of names.
language: English
title: Birds and Other Plays
titlecomplete: Birds and Other Plays
genres: Fiction, Plays, Poetry, Greece, Drama, Comedy, Ancient, Literature, Humor, Classics
ratings_count: 1543
places: Greece
publisher: Oxford University Press