Sign-In
Cart
Aristophanes BIRDS: An Adaptation for Modern Audiences in Rhyming Verse
Paperback
Series: Pocketbook Adaptations in Rhyming Verse, Book 2
ISBN13: 9781764058209
Publisher: Quidzunc
Published: Apr 25 2025
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.19
Height: 0.30 Width: 4.00 Depth: 6.00
Language: English
Two Athenian Citizens - fed up with their hyperlitigious compatriots - leave the hustle-and-bustle of the City to seek a better life...
Coming upon the mythical king Tereus - a man whom the gods had turned into the Hoopoe - they decide to found a new city, with him, among the birds: Cloudcuckooland...
Most versions of this play are for the birds. This one's for you! Here, for the first time, even those without the mastery of Ancient Greek will come as close as the Greeks themselves to speaking the language of the gods, and to understanding the songs of birds...
Originally published as an appetizer to a Greek-English interlineal version of the play - with which it was coupled in a single, large-format volume - this pocketbook edition has been slimmed down, but still includes the customized glossary of explanatory notes from the earlier edition, offering tidbits and insights once only ever glimpsed from the dizzying heights of Cloudcuckooland itself...
You can also hear a few of the songs from this adaptation, sung by Callum Speed and Katey Rylands, on YouTube @quidzunc
Oh, and a warning: This book contains fowl language.
Also from
Fraser, Greg
Aristophanes PEACE: Interlineal GREEK-ENGLISH text, with alternate LITERAL & VERSE translations
Fraser, Greg
Paperback
Aristophanes BIRDS: Interlineal GREEK-ENGLISH text, with alternate LITERAL & VERSE translations
Fraser, Greg
Paperback
Also in
Plays
Four Comedies: The Taming of the Shrew, a Midsummer Night's Dream, the Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night
Shakespeare, William
Paperback
Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem
Miller, Arthur
Paperback
The Greek Tragedies: Seventeen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides
Euripides
Aeschylus
Sophocles
Paperback
The Laramie Project and the Laramie Project: Ten Years Later
Kaufman, Moises
Fondakowski, Leigh
Pierotti, Greg
Paperback
FRANKENSTEIN or The Modern Prometheus (The Revised 1831 Edition - Wisehouse Classics)
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
Paperback
Four Major Plays: A Doll's House/Ghosts/Hedda Gabler/The Master Builder
Ibsen, Henrik
McFarlane, James
Arup, Jens
Paperback
A Doll's House and Other Plays: With Pillars of the Community, Ghosts and an Enemy of the People
Ibsen, Henrik
Paperback
KJV, Pew Bible, Large Print, Hardcover, Burgundy, Red Letter Edition (Large Print Edition)
Thomas Nelson
Hardcover
Five Plays: Ivanov, the Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and the Cherry Orchard
Chekhov, Anton
Hingley, Ronald
Paperback
Our Town and the Cosmic One-Acts: The Long Christmas Dinner, the Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden, and Pullman Car Hiawatha
Wilder, Thornton
Paperback