Aristophanes in Performance, 421 BC-AD 2007 Peace, Birds and Frogs

by Edith Hall

This book traces the international performance history of Aristophanic comedy, and its implication in aesthetic and political controversies, from 421 BC to AD 2007. It includes Brechtian experiments in East Berlin, and musical theatre from Gilbert and Sullivan to Stephen Sondheim.

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