The Malcontents
Subtitle: The Best Bitter, Cynical, and Satirical Writing in the World
Publisher: Running Press
Published: 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 1056
ISBN-13: 9780762416974
Subjects: Collections & anthologies of various literary forms; Literary Collections; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literature: Classics; Essays; Form - Essays; General
First sentence: For more than two millennia, audiences and critics alike have termed the work of Athens' fifth-century B.C. playwrights the "Old Comedy," a dramatic form that grew out of early Dionysian rites.