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Lysistrata - Make Love Not War

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(http://www.bbk.ac.uk/hca/classics/gender.htm) Aristophanes Bibliography
From Diotima, scholarly work on Aristophanes. what Aristophanes must have gone through. Accessed 09.1999.

(http://didaskalia.open.ac.uk/issues/vol2no1/withers.html) Writing New Ancient Theater
By Paul Withers, from Didaskalia. Metaphor, simile, meter, unity of time and place are all ancient dramatic components that can be made use of in modern drama with classical themes. Accessed 09.1999.

(http://didaskalia.open.ac.uk/issues/vol2no1/Rabinowitz.htm) The Male Actor of Greek Tragedy: Evidence of Misogyny or Gender-Bending?
Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz doesn't believe it. She thinks the audience regarded the male actor as neither the man he was in real life, nor the woman he represented, but a representation of the woman. Accessed 09.1999.

Guide for Aristophanes' Lysistrata
From Temple University. Pages refer to text used in Greek Drama and Culture class. Contains plot summary and suggestions to make the play more entertaining like reading Lampito as a hillbilly. Accessed 04.21.2006.

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