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  The Birds and Other Plays (Penguin Classics) (Paperback) By (author) Aristophanes, Translated by Alan H. Sommerstein, Translated by David Barrett

  

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  Short Description for The Birds and Other PlaysContains five stories, including "The Birds", "The Knights", "The Assembly Women", "Peace" and "Wealth".
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  • Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS
  • Published: 01 November 2003
  • Format: Paperback 336 pages
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  • Categories: Plays, Playscripts | Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780140449518 ISBN 10: 0140449515
  • Sales rank: 66,344

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Full description for The Birds and Other Plays

• The plays in this volume all contain Aristophanes' trademark bawdy comedy and dazzling verbal agility. In "The Birds", two frustrated Athenians join the birds to build the utopian city of 'Much Cuckoo in the Clouds'. "The Knights" is a venomous satire on Cleon, a prominent Athenian demagogue, while "The Assembly Women" deals with the battle of the sexes as the women of Athens infiltrate the all-male Assembly in disguise. The lengthy conflict with Sparta is the subject of "Peace", inspired by the hope of a settlement in 421 BC, and "Wealth" reflects on the economic catastrophe that hit Athens after the war.