Thesmophoriazusae

The idea of the 'Thesmophoriazusae' is as follows.

The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes

The 'Thesmophoriazusae' was produced in the year 412 B.C., six years before the death of Euripides, who is held up to ridicule in it, as he is in 'The Wasps' and several other of our Author's comedies.

The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes

The 'Thesmophoriazusae' and 'Ecclesiazusae' also take ample toll in this sort of the 'risqué' situations incidental to their plots, the dressing up of men as women in the former, and of women as men in the latter.

The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes

He was returning from the performance of his "Thesmophoriazusae," [34] last year a failure, but this time, thanks to some new and audacious touches, a brilliant success.

A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) Sutherland Orr 1865

The 'Ecclesiazusae, or Women in Council,' was not produced till twenty years after the preceding play, the 'Thesmophoriazusae' (at the Great

The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes

And then, on Tuesday, she will stage a blog-production of Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae.

Mêtêr Politikon - Part I 2006

Simmias the Theban (Phaedrus); of Aristophanes, who disguises under comic imagery a serious purpose; of Agathon, who in later life is satirized by Aristophanes in the Thesmophoriazusae, for his effeminate manners and the feeble rhythms of his verse; of

The Symposium 2006

And then, on Tuesday, she will stage a blog-production of Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae.

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Like the 'Lysistrata,' the 'Thesmophoriazusae, or Women's Festival,' and the next following play, the 'Ecclesiazusae, or Women in Council' are comedies in which the fair sex play a great part, and also resemble that extremely _scabreux_ production in the plentiful crop of doubtful 'double entendres' and highly suggestive situations they contain.

The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes

[391] A tragedy by Euripides, produced some years earlier, some fragments of which are quoted by Aristophanes in his 'Thesmophoriazusae.'

The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes