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Aristophanic  adj.  Of or pertaining to Aristophanes, the Athenian comic poet.





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"Aristophanic" Quotes from Famous Books



... weighty and sonorous ardor of expression, in the very best and loftiest passages of Marston: but his genius is more uncertain, more fitful and intermittent, less harmonious, coherent, and trustworthy than Webster's. And Webster, notwithstanding an occasional outbreak into Aristophanic license of momentary sarcasm through the sardonic lips of such a cynical ruffian as Ferdinand or Plamineo, is without exception the cleanliest, as Marston is beyond comparison the coarsest writer of his time. In this as in other matters of possible comparison ...
— The Age of Shakespeare • Algernon Charles Swinburne
 
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