5/26/2023 0 Comments Lysistrata cliff notes![]() ![]() Lysistrata is often produced in contemporary theatre. “While this is natural in a myth-based literature, the degree of focus on these non-public domestic relationships in a literature, which is through performance so completely public – the dramatic festivals were a matter of great civic pride to the Athenians”. (Slater, 48) Female psychology, their sexual encounters within family, explored in details. ![]() As in the case of fifth-century Greek, many dramas were populated by giant female characters like Clytemnestra and Lysistrata, “who burst the confines of domestic life and act commandingly, though often destructively, in the very political sphere, which was barred to them in life”. There is no Western literary form, which is so powerfully woman-centered, than Greek drama. ![]()
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