Chi-Raq
By Spike Lee Chi-Raq is a film by Spike Lee, a prominent Black director whose films centre around racism and anti-black violence in America. He takes Lysistrata and places it in the gang wars of Chicago, translating…
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Aristophanes: Lysistrata
By Aristophanes, translated, with introduction, notes, and commentaries, by Sarah Ruden Abstract: This rollicking new translation of Aristophanes’ comic masterpiece is rendered in blank verse for dialogue and in lyric…