How the male actors performed as women performing as themselves.
Ever feel like social media drama is a bit much? In 411 BCE, Aristophanes decided to write a play about women, complaining about a playwright who wrote plays about women. Meta , right? In Thesmophoriazusae , the women of Athens, sick of Euripides' brutal portrayals of them, gather to plan their revenge. Aristophanes Thesmophoriazusae
The main character, Mnesilochus, has to shave his entire body and dress in women's clothing to infiltrate a forbidden festival. How the male actors performed as women performing
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