Frogs critical perspectives

• Athenian tragic drama was a universal point of political reference and moral centre; "if tragedy is like politics it is the politics of universal history" 


  James Redfield
• "Aristophanes adds some authority to his own ideas, spoken or enacted by the god in his various roles, concerning literature"


  Martha Habash
• 'No-one will contend that the corrupt and abominable manners of the times in which Aristophanes wrote, did not fully warrant the severity of his satire"


  Richard Cumberland
• "Dionysus' attempt to censor Xanthias' accustomed porter jokes suggests that comic drama, too, has become stale to him — an idea of comic degeneration" 


  Mark Padilla
• "By entering the realm of Hades, Dionysus dies symbolically but not actually, the source of a great deal of the comedy in the play"



  Richard F. Moorton Jr