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This riotous play from ancient Greece's greatest comic dramatist blends fancy dress, earthy slapstick and political debate.

About the Author

Little is known about Aristophanes' life (c. 445BC-c.386BC), but there is a portrait of him in Plato's Symposium. His first comedy was produced when he was 20 and he wrote 40 plays in the course of his life.