This new translation (the first complete verse translation of Aristophanes' comedies to appear for more than twenty-five years) makes freshly available one of the most remarkable comic playwrights in the entire Western tradition. Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, which flourished during the heyday of classical Athenian culture in the fifth century BC, and his plays are characterized by extraordinary combinations of fantasy and satire, sophistication and vulgarity, formality and freedom. ...
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This new translation (the first complete verse translation of Aristophanes' comedies to appear for more than twenty-five years) makes freshly available one of the most remarkable comic playwrights in the entire Western tradition. Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, which flourished during the heyday of classical Athenian culture in the fifth century BC, and his plays are characterized by extraordinary combinations of fantasy and satire, sophistication and vulgarity, formality and freedom. This special mixture of qualities calls for a range and flexibility of linguistic resources which only a verse translation can supply. The present translation balances historical fidelity with literary and dramatic vigour, and conveys some of the unique variety of Aristophanic comic theatre. There is a substantial general introduction to the author and introductory essays to each of the plays, as well as full explanatory notes and an index of names.
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Very Good. Book. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Signed/Association Copy Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1904. Fourth edition. 12mo. Cloth. Clarendon Press Series. With Introduction and Notes by W. W. Merry, D. D., Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford. Includes an introduction to this Greek drama and text in Greek. Extensive notes, index, frontispiece illustration, and Clarendon Press publisher's catalog. This book is inscribed by noted author and St. Paul's School teacher Henry Crocker Kittredge, 1909, and includes his handwritten notes, translations, questions on the text, and annotations, both throughout the text and on the endpapers. A nicely published copy of the play with unique added content by Kittredge. Wear to head and tail of spine and corners. Very good.
