Birds, The
Walter Kerr
Death of Bessie Smith and Other Plays
by Edward Albee
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What readers are saying
Readers appreciate the humor and educational elements of the plays, particularly enjoying the bawdy and hilarious nature of The Assembly Women. Many find the notes and introductions helpful in understanding the context and wordplay used in the translations. However, a few readers note that some plays can be confusing without prior context or knowledge of the material.
Hilarious and bawdy humor Educational insights provided Helpful notes and introductions Some plays confusing without context
Synopsis
The plays in this volume all contain Aristophanes' trademark bawdy comedy and dazzling verbal agility.
In The Birds, two frustrated Athenians join the birds to build the utopian city of 'Much Cuckoo in the Clouds'.
The Knights is a venomous satire on Cleon, a prominent Athenian demagogue, while The Assembly Women deals with the battle of the sexes as the women of Athens infiltrate the all-male Assembly in disguise.
The lengthy conflict with Sparta is the subject of Peace, inspired by the hope of a settlement in 421 BC, and Wealth reflects on the economic catastrophe that hit Athens after the war.
Publication
Publisher Penguin
Year 1986
Binding Paperback
Edition Reprint, 1988
Pages 336
Place Harmondsworth, Middlesex
Language English
ISBN-13 9780140443325
ISBN-10 0140443320
LCCN 79308062
LCC PA3877 .A2 1978
Death of Bessie Smith and Other Plays is a American play written by Edward Albee and published by Penguin in Harmondsworth, Middlesex (1986).
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