ATHENS - Women At The Thesmephoria
- Created by: O.Langford
- Created on: 21-05-16 19:35
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- THE WOMEN AT THE THESMEPHORIA, ARISTIOPHANES (411BC, DURING DIONYSIA)
- ACT ONE, Scene One
- '******** him' - SEXUAL HUMOUR
- Euripedes talks of the women's plot to murder him
- Agathon rolls out on the ekkylema, wearing women's clothing - SLAPSTICK HUMOUR
- Talk of "straddling position", mimics Phaedra - HIPPOLYTUS, PARODY
- Agathon refuses to go along with plot references 'you love your life, your father does too' - ALECESTIS, PARODY
- When Mnesilochus agrees, they shave him, depiction of phalluses dangling - SEXUAL HUMOUR
- ACT ONE, Scene Two
- Women congregate at the Thesmephoria = semi-political, SEXIST HUMOUR
- Depict women as baby-stealers ("mouth bunged up with wax") and drunks ("we drank again" when questioning Mnesilochus about the rites - SEXIST HUMOUR, COULD BE SATIRE REFLECTING MALE FEARS
- Comedic scene where Mnesilochus is hiding his phallus from Mica - SLAPSTICK HUMOUR
- Mnesilochus steals Mica's baby - TELEPHUS, PARODY = it turns out to be a wine skin
- PARABISIS SCENE where women address men in the audience - could be comedic or reflection of true suffering - talk about dogs guarding doors and being locked up
- Aristophanes mocking of cowards in battle e.g. CLEONYMUS, SATIRE
- ACT TWO
- Crytlla's ignorance - SEXIST HUMOUR
- Mention Euripedes' play Helen - PARODY
- Scythian guards Mnesilochus - SLAPSTICK HUMOUR, DUE TO ACCENT/MANNERISMS
- Mnesilochus writes on tablets - alike to PALAMEDES but no oars due to war
- Euripedes comes down on the mechane - SLAPSTICK HUMOUR, alike to Gods at end of tragic plays
- Euripedes distracts the Scythian with a prostitute - SLAPSTICK HUMOUR
- Women agree to make up at the end with Euripedes - POSSIBLE SATIRE, COULD REFLECT ARISTOPHANES VIEW OF WAR
- ACT ONE, Scene One
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