![]() ![]() looks to the future more clearly than any other play of Aristophanes that has come down to us, for its timelessness is almost equal to that of the New Comedy and far in excess of anything that we find in the Old. Virtually all of his texts are brilliant and irreverent. Thousands were performed at annual festivals in Athens in the period 500 bc to about 350 bc, but only 14 texts survived, eleven of them by Aristophanes. ![]() In his introduction to the collection and to this play O’Neill stressed that very little remains of the ancient Greek comedies. That’s right – the editor of the comedies was a Yale classicist and son of the famous American playwright. Preparing for Southwestern University’s staging of this 2003 version of Aristophanes’ comedy, I dug out my worn copy of The Complete Greek Drama, edited by Whitney J. Review: Lysistrata by Aristophanes, Southwestern University ![]()
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