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<<"Lysistrata" to a decadent epoch>> – Introducing Arystophanes’s comedy into the reading culture of the Young Poland period

Author(s): Olga Śmiechowicz
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: "Lysistrata"; Aristophanes; literary translation; Young Poland movement

Summary/Abstract: In my paper I focus my attention on the event of introducing "Lysistrata" by Aristophanes into Polish culture in the early 20th century. I would like to show the ways in which the translators (Edmund Żegota Cięglewicz, Benjamin Bickley Rogers) of this period tried to render the ancient comedy, its style and humour. In translations of "Lysistrata" we can notice their efforts to familiarize popular reader with ancient author and his work.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 11
  • Page Range: 91-100
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Polish