Aristophanes
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- Created on: 19-05-14 19:11
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- Act 2
- there is not sign of Euripides
- Mnesilochus tries a scene from his new play Helen
- he starts reciting some of Helens lines
- 'and so many lost their lives ...because of me'
- Euripides enters pretending to me Menelaus
- Mnesilochus tells him that he has arrived at Egypt
- humorous because they are talking nonsense but Critylla is the outnumbered
- Mnesilochus even claims that Critylla is Proteus's daughter
- they act out the scene where Menelaus and Helen meet
- Menelaus wants to take Helen back to troy but critylla wont allow it
- he starts reciting some of Helens lines
- Mnesilochus tries a scene from his new play Helen
- Scythian
- illiterate as he cant pronounce his diction
- he refers to the girl called 'Artemisia' as 'amnesia'
- this provides comedy in the form of a pun when he says 'I lose amnesia'
- he refers to the girl called 'Artemisia' as 'amnesia'
- he is portrayed as a pervert
- 'hmmm, she have nice *******'
- illiterate as he cant pronounce his diction
- Mnesilochus is tied to a plank
- Euripides then appears dressed as perseus
- he is performing a parody from a scene in Andromeda
- this was play about rescue and romance
- Andromeda was tied to the shore so that Poseidon would not longer be angry at her father
- perseus was returning from slaying medusa when he saw her and fell in love
- echo conceals herself from behind a column
- Euripides appears on a crane to appear as if he is on Pegasus
- Perseus wants to take Andromeda in marriage
- it is comical because the Scythian can not understand why Euripides s so smitten with an old man
- Euripides tells the chorus women that he will no longer say anything bad about them if they help him out
- if they help him free Mnesilochus then he will never say a bad word about them
- if they don't then when their husbands get back from war he will tell them everything
- Euripides puts on the costume of an old women and calls for twinkletoes
- twinkletoes is made to give the Scythian a provocative dance
- Euripides offers the girl for one drachma
- the Scythian pays and goes off with her
- when the Scythian comes back the chorus point him in the wrong way
- if they help him free Mnesilochus then he will never say a bad word about them
- there is not sign of Euripides
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