Lysistrata
By: Aristophanes ; translated by Kenneth McLeish
Contributors: Aristophanes; McLeish, Kenneth, 1940-1997, translator
Publisher: Bloomsbury; Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London]
Language: eng
Subjects: Drama
Description: Originally performed in Athens in 411 BC, 'Lysistrata' is a comic account of one woman's extraordinary mission to end The Peloponnesian War. Lysistrata persuades the women of Greece to withhold sexual privileges from their husbands and lovers as a means of forcing the men to negotiate peace - a strategy, however, that inflames the battle between the sexes. The play is notable for being an early exposé of sexual relations in a male-dominated society.
Notes: Translated from the Ancient Greek.

Previously published in print: in Plays one. London, Methuen Drama, 1998.