The Ecclesiazusae is another women-centric play by Aristophanes that focuses on women who want to change their domestic roles and experience being men... so they take their husbands' clothes and grow facial hair to become more like men. This play is a lot like Lysistrata in many senses- the plot is similar, the characters are similar, and the message being put across is similar. I think I may have liked this one a little bit more, but I think that is only marginal. Both are great, I just find it funny that this group of women would willingly start growing beards and leg hair.

I really enjoy plays like this because they feel so modern, yet so accurate for the time. In many ways, Aristophanes seemed to be very much ahead of his time, byt not to a degree which inhibited his ability to do well in competitions at the time. In short, I really see him as more than a funny comedian, but as a very scathing thinker as well. Plays that attack a patriarchy that was in place at the time only seem to come from Aristophanes most of the time, which really brings his intellectuality into light.

3.5
Interesting take and a play about group of women who disguise themselves as men to convince the men in the Assembly to give them power to govern, and what happens next. The humor is product of its time, but still it was quite an interesting read if you read it in the context of the time it was written.

A peça em si é interessante, porém a tradução é péssima.
O tradutor tentou dar ares mais modernos à peça, porém retirou as referências sexuais e parte do humor encontrados na obra original.

Alguns exemplos absurdos da tradução:

"1a. Mulher: Veja que barba linda!
2a. Mulher: E a minha? Parece a do Lula."

"Virgem Maria! Vai falar bem assim na Bahia!"

De nuevo, vengo aquí a decir que Aristófanes es un genio.

La comedia que pone el mundo del revés, el qué-pasaría-sí, en clave de parodia, pues el comportamiento de la mujer no es más que el del imaginario masculino de la época.
¿La obra es transgresora o tremendamente conservadora? Apunta a lo segundo
¿El poder transformador de lo escatológico? ¿Cómo respondería la sociedad actual a ello, con o sin un contraste dramático-serio?
¿La puesta en escena acentuaba la problemática social de las mujeres, o acentuaba la parodia de ellas? Parece ir más enfocado a lo segundo, por desgracia
¿Es la primera propuesta práctica de comunismo? Investigar
Parece que el objetivo principal de Aristófanes es mostrar la propensión de las ciudades a la democracia, y a su posterior degeneración, y cómo personas concretas sacan provecho individual de problemáticas colectivas (p.e. sicofanta: denunciante profesional)

« La jolie fille :
Viens à moi, mon bel amour ! Viens, ah! Viens chercher séjour entre mes bras, dans mon lit pour toute une chaude nuit ! D’âpres feux je suis brûlée, pantelante, ensorcelée par tes beaux cheveux bouclés ! Ah quel désir éperdu me possède, répandu dans la chair qu’il a mordue ! Dieu d’Amour, je t’en supplie, fais que mon ami joli soit mon hôte dans mon lit !
Le garçon :
Viens à moi, ma belle amour, viens à moi, descends, accours, ouvre-moi ta porte, ou bien je me pâme, je suis mort ! Seconde, à vif coups de reins, la fougue de mes desseins dans l’assaut que je t’apprête !... Vénus, pour cette fillette tu me fais perdre la tête ! [...] »

Feminist bir tiyatro oyunu, hem güldürdü de bir yandan. Şans verilebilir.

Un clásico bastante cortito y entretenido con el que te puedes reír y es fácil de entender.

A learned defense of the rights of the ugly.

No sé bien cómo calificar esta obra así que simplemente no voy a hacerlo. Quizá no me atrevo porque una parte de mí sabe que no la he entendido al 100% porque aún no tengo esa soltura dentro de los clásicos griegos

It really suprised me that this was written before Plato's Republic 'couse it looks like a really fitting parody of it, some ideas presented are in fact the same (shared property, everyone could be your dad so do not hit older man...) and Proxagora really reminds me of Socrates (much more than Socrates from Clouds ).
It's marvelous how he mixes dealing with serious topics, satirizing more things at once, suprisingly good arguments with very funny comedy. Although response to some crisis they have back then it really interests even contemporary reader. It could have less jokes about shiting but otherwise it's just great.

Read it, especially if you read (at least part) of Republic and felt that it's odd.

Simplemente sublime. Me reí mucho leyendo está obra