Quick theatre history quiz: Can you guess the plot of this play from these two lines?
Then I will out with it at last, my mighty secret! Oh! Sister, women, if we would compel our husbands to make peace, we must refrain …
And:
We must refrain from the male altogether …
That’s from the opening scene of an ancient Greek comedy called Lysistrata by Aristophanes. Any guess what the plot’s about?
If you said “Women going on a sex strike to persuade their husbands to stop the Peloponnesian War” then you’d be correct.
