Lysistrata and the Feminist Movement

Abstract

In this study we try to explore the Feminist Movement in a holistic context. The main focus of the research is on a Drama written by Aristophanes “Lysistrata” and its relation with Feminist Movement. The research also analyzes many aspects of the Drama and tries to gauge its effect on Feminist Movement.

Table of Contents

Abstract1

Introduction3

Adaptations3

Analysis4

Characters Discussed6

Conclusion7

Works Cited10

Lysistrata and the Feminist Movement

Introduction

Lysistrata is an ancient Greek comedy of Aristophanes written in 411 BC. J.-C. AD. In Lysistrata, Aristophanes imagined for women an effective slogan: "To stop the war, deny yourselves to your husbands." While Athens and Sparta are at war, Lysistrata, beautiful Athenian, as cunning audacious, convincing women of all the Greek cities to initiate and continue a total sex strike until the men return to reason and stop the fight. Aristophanes likes to mix the conflicts of the state to the most intimate details of daily life, solving one of the most serious political crises in the most licentious comedy, happily and using all the clichés of the war of the sexes.

The piece was created during the Dionysia festival or other less dedicated to Dionysus, the Lenaea. Another comedy of Aristophanes, the Thesmophoria , was created the same year, and it is difficult to know which was played in what festival. The play shows the role that women can have in society and how to do politics, but they do not play the role because their views are ignored. All political issues are considered only in terms of men. See especially the dialogue between Lysistrata and the Magistrate just trying to intimidate women and prevent them from realizing their plans. Emotion is mainly caused by the poignant girls who cannot find a husband, because of the large number of young men died in the fighting. One of the humorous aspects of the play lies in the fact that the main male characters all wear a phallus (Pelling, 213).

Adaptations

This piece was translated into French so truculent by Victor-Henri Debidour.

A series of erotic adapted in Strike of love in the series rose in 1991

An adaptation of the play by the author Michel Tremblay and director André Brassard was created in Ottawa (Canada) during the war in Vietnam, with the actress Louisette Dussault in the title role.

A recent translation, adapted to the theater, was published by Laetitia Bianchi and Raphaël Meltz at Arléa.

In 1992, the designer of cartoons German Ralf König has freely adapted the story in his album of the same name (Lysistrata), adding the topic of homosexuality. This album is published in France by the publisher Glénat . This adaptation follows the illustrations that gave Pablo Picasso under the control of the Swiss publisher Albert Skira in 1934.

This piece was taken in early 2011 by Raymond Aquaviva and a troop of about twenty young actors. They are mostly from the workshops of Sudden Vranken as Catherine in the role of Lysistrata, or Pierre Bechet in the role of the Minister. This time it is presented ...