PPT-Women in Aristophanes

A DIFFERENT APPROACH Women in Comedy Women in Comedy are presented as lively sexual funloving intelligent cunning sometimes devious and much more interesting and complex than the caricatures which serious literature has created. Lysistrata By Aristophanes Dir Barbara Karger and Michael Preston Goodwin Theater Austin Arts Center Hartford 20 April 2006 Performance Parenthetical Reference Live performances dont have page numbers so d ont worry about them Put your parenthetica Women Women Women So much has been written about the powerful f emale consume r you would think the men folk in your company would realize that women are the root of all profits Yet still so many men live in denial that women account for over 80 of Violette. . Szabo. Denise Bloch. Lilian. Rolfe. Cecily . Lefort. They were all members of S.O.E. They all gave their lives for victory. Landed June 43 as a member of the Jockey . resau. .. Captured Sep 43.. Frogs. Drama to the Rescue?. Prologue: Chorus . to Demeter. “May I utter much that's funny, / and also much that’s serious” . (p. 79). Prologue: The Historical Situation. Political-military. Oligarchic coup of 411 BCE. Lysistrata. Two Quotes. Women’s . peithō. , how appraised?. Two Quotes. Chorus Leader to Lysistrata:. Hail the bravest of all women!. Now you must be more besides:. Firm but soft, high-class but low-brow,. Assemblywomen. Persuasion = Salvation?. Agenda. Epideixis. Final preview. Discussion. Aristophanes’ . Assemblywomen. and . peithō. Play and Context. Athens 404-387 BCE. Which Lens(. es. )?. Assemblywomen. Aristophanes’ . Ladies’ Day. Quote. “There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender; that identity is . performatively. constituted by the very ‘expressions’ that are said to be its results” (Butler . Aristophanes’ . Knights. and the Politics of . Passion. Journal Question. Where . is on . the political spectrum . (democratic/oligarchic) do . you . locate . the ideological perspective informing the satire in . satiricalhumour, sexual humour, slapstick humour, verbal humour and bathos. The satirical humour that Aristophanes used was an attack on the current personalities of the time for example Cleon in Kni Lysistrata. Two Quotes. Women’s . peithō. , how appraised?. Two Quotes. Chorus Leader to Lysistrata:. Hail the bravest of all women!. Now you must be more besides:. Firm but soft, high-class but low-brow,. Elizabeth Farnsworth. Pre-World War . I. W. omen . typically played the role of the homemaker.  . Women . were judged by their beauty rather than by their ability.  . Their . position and status were directed towards maintaining the annual duties of the family and children.  . Sophistic Under . Attack. Agenda. Epideixis. Topoi. , Figures, Argumentation. Oral Report. Aristophanes’ . Clouds. In-Class Debate (+ Epideictic Exhibition). Better Argument versus Worse Argument. 21-Mar 2017. Aristophanes’ . Knights. and the Politics of Passion. Journal Question. Where . on . the political spectrum . (democratic/oligarchic) do . you . locate . the ideological perspective informing the satire in . Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama which flourished in Athens during the fifth century BC. One of the most original playwrights in the entire Western tradition, his comedies are remarkable for their brilliant combination of fantasy and satire, their constantly inventive manipulation of language, and their use of absurd characters and plots to expose his society\'s institutions and values to the bracing challenge of laughter.This vibrant collection of verse translations of Aristophanes\' works combines historical accuracy with a sensitive attempt to capture the rich dramatic and literary qualities of Aristophanic comedy. The volume presents Clouds, with its famous caricature of the philosopher Socrates Women at the Thesmophoria (or Thesmophoriazusae), a work which mixes elaborate parody of tragedy with a great deal of transvestite burlesque and Frogs, in which the dead tragedians Aeschylus and Euripides engage in a vituperative contest of \'literary criticism\' of each other\'s plays. Featuring expansive introductions to each play and detailed explanatory notes, the volume also includes an illuminating appendix, which provides information and selected fragments from the lost plays of Aristophanes.