Excerpt from The Acharnians of Aristophanes: With Introduction, English Prose Translation, Critical Notes, and Commentary Shakespearean flavour to my style. To imitate Shakespeare argues some temerity, but the attempt was, in my opinion, worth making. There was much in common between the ages of Pericles and Elizabeth which impressed itself upon the language of Aristophanes and Shakespeare, so full is it of the freshness, daring, and intellectual vigour of those extraordinary days, when, as it seems, everyone, from heroes to catchpoles, spoke in a tongue that was of imagination all compact. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.