Aristophanes
Aristophanes ( c. 448 – 380 BC ),Athenian comic dramatist whose satirical plays, the only surviving representatives of the Old Comedy, attacked individuals rather than types. Because of the difficulties of his language and the obscurity of his contemporary references, Aristophanes did not receive much attention in England until the 19th cent., which produced translations by B. H. Kennedy (The Birds, 1804 ), Thomas Mitchell , and Frere . These were followed by versions by B. B. Rogers ( 1904 onwards), which were ingenious but failed to find favour with scholars; by G. Murray ; and by Dudley Fitts , whose version of Lysistrata was performed with considerable success in 1957 at the Royal Court . Other recent translations include A. H. Sommerstein's Three Plays ( 1973 ).
The extant works of Aristophanes are The Acharnians; The Knights; The Clouds;...
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