The Malcontents
Subtitle: The Best Bitter, Cynical, and Satirical Writing in the World
Publisher: Running Press Book Publishers
Published: August 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 1200
ISBN-13: 9780762413447
Subjects: Collections & anthologies of various literary forms; Essays, journals, letters & other prose works; Literature: Classics; Literary Collections; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Satire; Essays; Form - Essays; Collections; Literature
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.