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Lysistrata is a comedy by Aristophanes. Originally performed in classical Athens in 411 BCE, it is a comic account of one woman's extraordinary mission to end The Peloponnesian War. Lysistrata persuades the women of Greece to withhold sexual privileges from their husbands and lovers as a means of forcing the men to negotiate peace - a strategy, however, that inflames the battle between the sexes. The play is notable for being an early exposé of sexual...
7) Parsifal
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Loosely based on a German epic poem by Wolfram von Eschenbach, Parsifal tells the story of a naive youth questing for the Holy Grail. Wagner's last opera, it was composed to be performed solely at the Bayreuth Festival, a monopoly held by the festival from its first performance in 1882 until 1903.
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Resurgens Theatre Company presents this long-neglected domestic tragedy based on the brutal murder of a prominent London merchant, George Sanders, in 1573. First performed by Shakespeare's company in the late sixteenth century, A Warning for Fair Women mixes allegory, masque, bloodlust, and courtroom drama in a show unlike other Renaissance dramas staged today, as there's no record of any public performance since 1599. Directed by Dr. Brent Griffin,...
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From The Book's Cover: Three Plays: Our Town - Skin Of Our Teeth - The Matchmaker. This volume brings together the definitive texts of three outstanding plays by one of our most distinguished writers. Two of them, Our town and The Skin Of Our Teeth, were awarded the Pulitzer Prize. The Matchmaker has never before been published. Our Town has been revised from the previously published version. All three plays were hits the most recent being The Matchmaker,...
11) Timon of Athens
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"Timon's compulsive generosity makes him the most popular man in Athens - until his funds run out. Now, embittered by ingratitude, what will he do when his city comes under attack? This stirring production from the Stratford Festival is a heartbreaking masterpiece."--Bloomsbury Drama Online.
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