![]() ![]() When comedy could no longer directly satirize celebrities or politicians and The most significant transition he undertook came after the Peloponnesian War Have, reinvented himself several times through his career. Of a playwright, as the world changes around him, and Aristophanes, as few others ![]() Such a prolonged career requires dramatic transformations Of his ilk whose brilliance all too often fizzles out early, his light burnedīright until late in life. Molière and Wilde tends to flower early-but unlike so many others To flourish-comic genius of the sort he shares with Menander, Shakespeare, Speak to issues of war, sex, poetry, government, among other timeless concerns.Īristophanes was born into a good Athenian family at some point around the 450's BCE and died around 386 BCE. In their subject, his dramas are still widely produced because their themes Equally important, these plays date from 425 to 388 BCE, constitutingĪ sampling of all major phases of his playwriting career. Out of a total corpus of forty or more, eleven of his comedies have been preserved through a manuscript ![]() The only exponent of Old Comedy who has any works surviving intact. Whether he deserved it or not, Aristophanes has emerged as 309: Old Comedy, Classical Drama and Theatre ![]()
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