The Birds: A Modern Adaptation
Don Zolidis
The Birds
by Aristophanes
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Synopsis
Pez and Eck are on the hunt for the perfect society in "a city where free men might live like birds".
But when they start building the bird city for real, Pez starts to have ambitions - which seem not a million miles away from dictatorship.
As the fantasy utopia threatens to turn into a tyranny the birds start to rebel.
Sean O'Brien's new verse brings Aristophanes' devastatingly ironic comment on human ambition bang up-to-date and is brimful of jokes ancient and modern.
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PublisherMethuen
Year2002
BindingPaperback
Pages96
PlaceLondon
LanguageEnglish
ISBN-139780413772787
ISBN-100413772780
LCCN2003447750
LCCPA3875 .A8 2002
The Birds is a Greek & Roman comedy play written by Aristophanes and published by Methuen in London (2002).
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