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Lysistrata
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LYSISTRATA
Why don't you just drop dead? Here's a grave site; buy a coffin; I'll start kneading you a honeycake.
I'd like to say that this was the usual Greek comedy, but Aristophanes is quite the overachiever when it comes to exaggerating and using bizarre innuendos. Therefore, Lysistrata has an equal amount of funny and cringeworthy moments.
THIRD WOMAN
I'm going to have a baby.
LYSISTRATA
But you were not pregnant yesterday!
THIRD WOMAN.
Well, I am to-day. Oh! let me go in search of the midwife, Lysistrata, quick, quick!
Why don't you just drop dead? Here's a grave site; buy a coffin; I'll start kneading you a honeycake.
I'd like to say that this was the usual Greek comedy, but Aristophanes is quite the overachiever when it comes to exaggerating and using bizarre innuendos. Therefore, Lysistrata has an equal amount of funny and cringeworthy moments.
THIRD WOMAN
I'm going to have a baby.
LYSISTRATA
But you were not pregnant yesterday!
THIRD WOMAN.
Well, I am to-day. Oh! let me go in search of the midwife, Lysistrata, quick, quick!
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Reading Progress
March 10, 2016
– Shelved
March 10, 2016
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to-read
March 24, 2016
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in-the-queue
March 26, 2016
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Started Reading
March 26, 2016
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to-read
March 30, 2016
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in-the-queue
April 3, 2016
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Finished Reading
September 2, 2019
– Shelved as:
comedy
September 2, 2019
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plays
April 10, 2021
– Shelved as:
ancient-lit