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    Frogs and Other Plays (Penguin Classics) (Paperback) By (author) Aristophanes, Translated by David Barrett, Revised by Shomit Dutta, Introduction by Shomit Dutta

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    Short Description for Frogs and Other PlaysTalks about plays such as "The Frogs", written during the Peloponnesian War; "The Wasps", in which an old-fashioned father and his loose-living son come to blows and end up in court; and "The Poet and the Women", in which Euripides, accused of misogyny, persuades a relative to find out whether revenge is being plotted against him.
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  • The master of ancient Greek comic drama, Aristophanes combined slapstick, humour and cheerful vulgarity with acute political observations. In "The Frogs", written during the Peloponnesian War, Dionysus descends to the Underworld to bring back a poet who can help Athens in its darkest hour, and stages a great debate to help him decide between the traditional wisdom of Aeschylus and the brilliant modernity of Euripides. The clash of generations and values is also the object of Aristophanes' satire in "The Wasps", in which an old-fashioned father and his loose-living son come to blows and end up in court. And in "The Poet and the Women", Euripides, accused of misogyny, persuades a relative to infiltrate an all-women festival to find out whether revenge is being plotted against him.