Types of Comedy in Peace: Quotes

·        Sexual innuendo

Scene with beetle, passing harvest around the audience in the Exodus

“he says he likes them friction treated” page 98, First salve

“one fine day he was ******* himself” page 107, Trygaeus

“with nothing to consume his energy but poking… the fire” page 113, Trygaeus

“she’d better be prepared for a bit of a licking here too!” page 127, slave

“I feel her **** and my ***** already for more”, page 127, Trygaeus

“shoving and prodding with two fists and one ***** simultaneously” page 129, Trygaeus

·        Slapstick

“The top people, the top-top people, and the top-top-top people”, page 99, first slave

“the emptier of Bowels”, page 106, Trygaeus

“it’s our legs, they’re so happy they’re disobeying orders and dancing in their own” page 109, Leader

“I sing, I laugh, I fart” page 109, chorus

“why they’re biting on their ropes like dogs” page 114, Trygaeus

“heave, ho” page 113-115, Chorus

“let’s get this Bakis! Hit him good and hard” page 137, Trygaeus

“he’s dyed a Shittian shade from utter fright” page 139, Leader

·        Political satire

“ah think it’s all an allego-ry about Cleon” page 99,…