Talk:The Birds (play)
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Old content of the Birds (theater) (below) needs to be merged into this article. The Birds is a comedy by Aristophanes. It tells the story of two men fed up with life in wartime Athens who set off in search of the ideal city. They make their way to the sky, where they persuade the birds to found a realm occupying the strategic position between heaven and earth. The new city of Cloudcuckooland, like all would-be utopias, quickly collapses from egalitarian state to dicatorship as the human ruler of the bird-city acquires a fancy for tyrrany and hubris, leading his state into ruin.
- I think I've added the stuff I didn't already mention...I didn't know there already was a page, as it didn't show up in a search (either on Wikipedia itself or on a site search on Google). I searched for it last week sometime when I was adding to the Aristophanes page, and yesterday when I wrote this one. That's weird...oh well. Adam Bishop 17:39, 25 Aug 2003 (UTC)
No. 'The Birds (theater)' was created earlier today. Mintguy 20:31, 25 Aug 2003 (UTC)
- Ah...I see now. That is even stranger :) Adam Bishop 20:40, 25 Aug 2003 (UTC)
[edit] Cloudcuckooland
I'm of the opinion that Cloudcuckooland deserves its own entry separate from this article. Does anyone agree, or care to write it? I'm sure someone out there can do I better job than I. -R. fiend 21:01, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Why are you of that opinion? Adam Bishop 21:03, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Cloudcuckooland, unlike the myriad Pokemon articles for example, is often made mention of outside the context of Aristophenes, making it exactly the sort of thing that someone completely unfamiliar with the term would want to look up. For that reason alone I think stand out articles are beneficial. It's obviously not too important, as long as it's covered sufficiently here with a redirect, but it's own article could be more in-depth, if necessary. Also, the fact that someone made a link of its mention in this article (which redirects back to this page) makes me think I'm not alone. Do you oppose this? Or think it's unnecessary? I admit it's not essential. -R. fiend 21:20, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)
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- I don't oppose it, I was just curious :) (I would imagine there are more people who know the term Cloudcuckooland than there are who know this play or Aristophanes.)
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[edit] Eugene O'Neill, Jr.
One of the translations I found for The Birds was by someone named Eugene O'Neill, Jr. Anyone know if that is the famous playwrite Eugene O'Neill, or perhaps his son or other relative?
