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What do Aristophanes' plays the Wasps and/or the Poet and the Women tell us about life in Athensduring the late fifth century B.C?
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Aristophanes Coursework What do Aristophanes' plays the Wasps and/or the Poet and the Women tell us about life in Athens during the late fifth century B.C? Aristophanes, a comic playwright, wrote in the style of 'Old' Attic Comedy, which contains a great deal of vulgarity and crudity, a traditional theatrical form. He wrote the only complete surviving plays that were in this style. Fortunately Aristophanes is considered to be one of the greatest and, indeed, last of the Old Comedy playwrights of his time. His plays can tell us much about life in Athens, even though, as a comic poet, Aristophanes ridicules many aspects of it. One feature that I will be concentrating on is the Athenian law courts and I shall be looking at the Wasps, a political satire, like many of Aristophanes' comedies. At the time when the Wasps was first performed - 422 BC - Athens was in the...
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