It is important to understand that the ancient Greek comedy "Lysistrata" serves as an example of how, throughout Greek drama, civil unrest is often defined and framed in terms of gender and sexual conflict. For example, female choruses, the Furies, male supremacy, female protest and incest have all been used ... take advantage of the situations presented to him in the context of great epic stories and shape them to meet his own dramatic ends. In fact, Marshall based an entire study on the ways in which Aristophanes took advantage of the "regulations" of the ancient theater gatherings (only ...

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