Abstract

Drama
Hazlitt, Henry | June 25, 1930 issue

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A classic has been happily defined as simply a work of such intense vitality that it is always modern, and "Lysistrata" first presented in Athens 2,341 years ago, fills this definition completely. It is a play about war and about sex. When "Lysistrata" was produced, the Peloponnesian War had been going on for twenty years. it is with this situation that the play opens. Lysistrata, realizing that the war will only bring ruin to Athens, and that the men will never settle it, conspires to put all the women, not only of Athens but of Sparta and her allies, under oath to have nothing to do with their husbands or lovers until the war is ended.

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DRAMA; LYSISTRATA (Theatrical production); WAR; SEX; PSYCHOLOGY; ATHENS (Greece)
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