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| Title | : | Lysistrata |
| Author | : | Aristophanes |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 132 pages |
| Published | : | March 1st 2003 by Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. (first published -411) |
| Categories | : | Plays. Classics. Drama. Fiction. Theatre |
Aristophanes
Paperback | Pages: 132 pages Rating: 3.86 | 34335 Users | 890 Reviews
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I hate this book because I got arrested on account of it. I was at the University of Texas' Perry Castaneda Library and it got lost amidst the shuffled stack of books which I dumped into my backpack when I left. Exiting the library the sensor went off. Sorry, I forgot to check it out. No big deal, happens all the time. But the Department of Collegiate Fascism, aka the UTPD, are required to file a report. Bored from arresting 19-year-olds for walking down the street half drunk they show up like it's the scene of a hostage crisis. And, unlucky me, it turns out I have a warrant for an unpaid alcohol-possession ticket. Still, no big deal. I can go down to the station and pay it. Fine. But this is the lobby of a large student library and I am surrounded by my fellow students, all of us dutifully studying on a Tuesday night. As such, might I please just walk out to the police car? GET AGAINST THE WALL MOTHERFUCKER! A.J. COVER ME WHILE I SEARCH THIS SCUMBAG! GOTCHA COVERED BUDDY! [Loudly cocks shotgun] NO WEAPONS ON HIS TORSO! NOTHING UP HIS SPHINCTER! NOTHING TIED TO HIS BALLSACK... BUT WAIT, LET ME SQUEEZE HARDER! [Sound of testes being crunched by human fist] OK THIS PERP'S CLEAN! GIT ME MY CUFFS! [Sound of me being viciously shackled] YOU GIT THAT ARM! HELP ME DRAG 'EM OUT TO THE SQUAD CAR! HOLD ON! HE'S MEEKLY PROTESTING! HAND ME MY BLUDGEON! [Egregious violence] YEAH! GIT SOME! GIT SOME! GIT SOME MOTHERFUCKER! YEAH A.J. KICK 'EM SOME MORE! GIT SOME, BITCH! Ok he ain't movin'. [Sound of manacled body being dragged across library lobby, accompanied by the stunned silence of onlookers] Thus ended my experience with Lysistrata. I never got to the ending, although in later years my various girlfriends, in the manner of Ghandi protesting English oppression of the Indian subcontinent, were wont to use "Lysistratan nonaction" to protest my rampant drinking and proneness to random street violence. Not recommended.
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| Original Title: | Λυσιστράτη |
| ISBN: | 0872206033 (ISBN13: 9780872206038) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Lysistrata |
| Setting: | Greece |
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Ratings: 3.86 From 34335 Users | 890 ReviewsComment On Regarding Books Lysistrata
Ancient Greek play about women trying to the end the Trojan War by abstaining from sex. It's a classic for a reason...This particular translation did little for me. I find the older, more archaic English holds more power than the modern vernacular.This modern translation by Douglass Parker is HORRENDOUS! Got it, the Athenians consider the Spartan Lampito a country bumpkin, but I can not read another line of "Shuckins, whut fer you tweedlin'me up so? I feel like a heifer come fair-time." in this CLASSIC drama. Harumph!Douglass Parker's footnote for "I calklate so" is "In employing a somewhat debased American mountain dialect to render the Laconic Greek of Lampito and her countrymen, I have tried to evoke something like the Athenian
Staging a sex strike12 January 2013 Ignoring the crudeness of the play (and remember that Shakespeare himself was quite crude) and the naked men running around with giant erect peni (is that the plural of penis?) what this play seems to be about is the empowerment of women (which is probably why the feminists love it so much). Mind you the only woman in this play that seems to have the willpower to see it through to the end is Lysistrata herself, but then that is probably why she is the leader.
This was such a comic relief after weeks of Homer. This play is lighthearted and funny, though it deals with several important subjects. If it weren't on my syllabus, I probably wouldn't have heard of it for a long while. But I'm glad I got a chance to read it, though I'd be interested in getting hold of a more traditionally translated edition. I'm not sure I loved the liberties this translator took with the text.
In the introductory note in my edition a Mr. Crofts mentions that the play "is notorious for its racy, almost pornographic humor". I'd say that this seems to be a bit of an overstatement. Surely it is not that much more racy than say a William Shakespeare play or for that matter The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights? It is really all talk and no action. Surely we as modern readers can handle that? (And would anyone living in 1994, the date of this edition, really consider this
I hate this book because I got arrested on account of it. I was at the University of Texas' Perry Castaneda Library and it got lost amidst the shuffled stack of books which I dumped into my backpack when I left. Exiting the library the sensor went off.Sorry, I forgot to check it out. No big deal, happens all the time. But the Department of Collegiate Fascism, aka the UTPD, are required to file a report. Bored from arresting 19-year-olds for walking down the street half drunk they show up like
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