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Stuttard's version of the play (hovering between translation and adaptation) bounces along and reads well: the mix of verbal ingenuity and relentless double-entendres (some of them added in) gives it the character of an upmarket Carry On film. The book is well-produced, excellent value, and surely an essential purchase for any department or school library. -- John Taylor - Tonbridge School The Journal of Classical Teaching
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In Aristophanes' 'Lysistrata' the women of Athens, fed up with the war against Sparta, go on a sex strike and barricade themselves into the acropolis to persuade their husbands to vote against the war. It is the most often performed of all Aristophanes' comedies. It is also, perhaps, the most misunderstood. This collection of essays by eight leading academics, written for sixth-form students and the general public alike, sets the play firmly in its historical and social context, while exploring Aristophanes' purpose in writing it and considering the responses of modern audiences and directors. The collection has been assembled and edited by David Stuttard, whose energetic new performing version of the play is included in this volume. Contributors: Alan Beale; Edith Hall; Lorna Hardwick; James Morwood; Martin Revermann; James Robson; Alan H. Sommerstein; Michael Walton.
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Review of Stuttard's 'Looking at Lysistrata'
29 Aug 2011
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This is a great combinations--several essays on the play followed by a new translation. The essays are all very short, many of them from a political/theatrical perspective rather than a strictly classical one. The translation is hilarious, the funniest I've read thus far, despite a variety of British-centered puns and references I'm sure I didn't catch. It is, of course, a very loose translation (though where more appropriate than 'Loose Strife').
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