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    <body><![CDATA[Copying an old review: I only read the play, &quot;Lysistrata,&quot; out of the collection of three, which includes &quot;The Acharnians&quot; and &quot;The Clouds.&quot; &quot;Lysistrata&quot; was required reading for my class Comedy in Literature.<br/><br/>The play is most definitely quite amusing...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49347762">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read &quot;Lysistrata&quot;, but the other two works in this Penguin collection, I'm sorry to say, never engaged me.  I'm sure there would be more to pull me in in the original language, but alas, I'm not that interested in comedy plays in English that aren't a great deal more complex.  I realize ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9624151">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this for English class this week. Discussion section's tomorrow, and I still have no idea of what I'll say-and I read the introduction, play and end notes. It doesn't say anything particularly interesting or new at all about sexuality in general or female sexuality in particular. And it wasn'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78006826">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Required reading in High School! I really loved this comedy... probably my favorite of all Greek plays, it was light hearted and pointed and I really do believe those women were onto something no contemporary diplomat or arbiter can hold a candle to! Just imagine, what would happen if women across t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76176800">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Every high school or college student should read this play. Very entertaining, and quite telling about men and women throughout the ages. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Lysistrata is unbelievable fun, with a germane political message, as well.  Appropriate for teens and adults.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Awesome! Read it and you'll understand. There has never been a better use of a sex strike. ;)]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Lysistrata must be, hands down, the funniest Greek play ever written. I promise it will make you laugh out loud.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I found myself laughing out loud many times while reading these plays, but in an uncomfortable I-shouldn't-be-laughing-at-this kind of way. Definitely not for the kids.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;The Clouds&quot; is a decent play, but I didn't find it quite as funny as some other people in my classics studies class in college.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I keep finding books that I've read so long ago and keep adding them.  Anyways, what really made me buy this book was Lysistrata (excellent and hilarious play).  The other plays in here, like Clouds, is worth the read.  But, this is a personal opinion, plays are meant to be acted out instead of read...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9252935">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[ok, i only read lysistrata.  i like it as a comedy, but not as a &quot;feminist&quot; work, which i've heard it called.  i actually think it's just a funny idea (let's have a sex strike!) and a funny view of human nature (the women have just a hard a time as men keeping it up).  (har har, no pun int...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[if, as a woman, you need a little boost in the &quot;girls kick ass&quot; realm, this is a good place to start. it's also one of the first plays that was used for social change...i can get behind that. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[withholding sex to encourage ceasefire. bawdy and raunchy especially one of the ladies. oh if they only performed this as they did in the olden days!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Senior year at UMD - I played Lysistrata.  Thank god for my vocal coach and classical training - this was a tough character to play.]]></body>
    
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