Excerpt from The Frogs of Aristophanes, Adapted for Performance by the Oxford University Dramatic Society, 1892: With an English Version Partly Adapted From That of J. Hookham Frere and Partly Written for the Occasion
The Greek text of this edition is in the main that adopted by the Rev. W.W. Merry, D.D., in the Clarendon Press Series. In the preparation of a Greek play for acting purposes considerable cuts must always be made; in the present adaptation, the excisions are more serious perhaps than usual. The witty scenes in which the Maidservant and the Tavernkeeper appear, I cut out with much reluctance in order to relieve the O.U.D.S. from the necessity of filling those parts. Act III. has been shortened by the excision of the first part of the Poets' contest, dealing with purely literary criticism, and occupying over 200 lines. The other parts of the contest have been curtailed considerably, on the ground that almost all their point lies in sustained parody of plays either lost or not sufficiently known to a modern audience; or in personal allusions not intelligible now-a-days.
For the English version I have laid John Hookham Frere under contribution wherever possible.
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