Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 808
EAN num: 9780140441529
ISBN number: 0140441522
Label: Penguin Classics
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 224
Printing Date: February 28, 1964
Publishing house: Penguin Classics
Sale Popularity Level: 251679
Studio: Penguin Classics
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Comedy is notoriously difficult to translate--not only do some cultures have entirely different senses of humor, the word-play and deft cultural allusions that make good comedy are often untranslatable. Against these odds, translator David Barrett has successfully brought Aristophanes into modern English with all his wit, sarcasm, and sly digs at well-known Greeks.
The plays collected here--Frogs, Wasps, and Women at the Thesmophoria--are rendered so well that I was laughing all the way through. The translations are remarkably true to the originals and well foot-noted where the translator has diverged from the text, usually to make a joke an English-speaking reader would understand.
Frogs and Other Plays is a fast, easy, and very funny read, well worth the time for anyone interested in ancient Greece, drama, or good old-fashioned comedy.
Recommended.
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More people should read the Greeks. It's not hard at all. How many of your friends can say they've read Aristophanes?
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