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Lysistrata Play Analysis

Lysistrata Play Analysis

Q 1. Summarize in 3 to 4 sentences the plot of the play.2. Message the playwright wanted the audiences to know.3. What did you learn about the play?4. Which scene was the strongest for you, and why?5. History of playwright’s life – personal, educational, employment, artistic

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The play “Lysistrata” written by Aristophanes is about the period in Greece where Athens and Spartans were having a Peloponnesian war and which was causing a great deal of loss to both the sides. In such a situation Lysistrata a middle-class woman comes up with a plan and calls a meeting with women of both the nation. She tells her plan of refusing to have sexual intercourse with a husband like a sex-strike which will make every man desperate. In the verge of desperation, men of both the nation agree to come to conclusion by having a treaty of peace which they enjoy by dancing and singing.