Aristophanes
Subtitle: Myth, Ritual and Comedy
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 13, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780521575751
Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Plays & playwrights; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Greek Literature; Language Arts & Disciplines; Ancient (Classical) Greek; Language; Ancient and Classical; Ancient, Classical & Medieval; General; Aristophanes--Criticism and interpretation; Drama-Ancient, Classical & Medieval; Language Arts & Disciplines-General; Literary Collections / Ancient, Classical & Medieval; Literary Criticism & Collections / Ancient & Classical
First sentence: In Beethoven's Fidelio, after the prisoners have been locked away for the night, Leonora, disguised as a young man, descends with the jailer Rocco to the cell where her husband Florestan is imprisoned, in order to help kill and bury him as ordered by Pizarro.