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The Wasps

Author
Aristophanes
Series
Greek Comedy
Language
English
Length
76 pages
ISBN
9781911535874
Published
14 November 2016
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Aristophanes
  • Greek
  • Athens
  • comic
  • comedy
  • humour
  • humorous
  • play
  • Greece
  • mythology

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Description

Aristophanes’ classic comedy The Wasps sharply satirizes the ancient Athenian legal system and its citizens' obsession with lawsuits. The story follows Philocleon, an elderly man addicted to jury duty, and his son Bdelycleon, who desperately tries to cure his father's madness. Packed with sharp wit, absurd humor, and a famous mock trial of a house dog, this timeless play explores political manipulation and generational conflict with biting humor.

Author

Aristophanes was a comic playwright of ancient Athens. Eleven of his forty plays survive virtually complete. These, together with fragments of some of his other plays, provide the only real examples of a genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy, and are used to define it. Also known as the Father of Comedy and the Prince of Ancient Comedy, Aristophanes has been said to recreate the life of ancient Athens more convincingly than any other author.

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