Really funny
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I studied 'Wasps' and 'Frogs' for seventh form Classical studies this year and they're really, really funny. I think this edition is good because the footnotes are excellent, the introduction is good, and because the translation is relatively recent (1970?) and in quite simple language, these plays are good to study at school because the majority of people understand what's going on. Also, the humour in these plays hasn't faded at all even though they were written in approximately 400BC. These plays can be studied at either a simple level (discussing what types of humour are used etc) or at a more complex level (where you get into all the issues surrounding the plays: war with Sparta, generation gap, inefficiency of the jury system etc...).
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