The Frogs

Unlike many other cultural values that shift and evolve from decade to decade, comedy can be timeless. The comic masterpiece The Frogs, penned by famed Greek playwright Aristophanes more than 2,000 years ago, will leave today's readers doubled over with laughter. When the god Dionysus begins to suspect that the quality of Greek drama has taken a nosedive, he decides to travel to Hades to bring a few of the top practitioners of the form back to life. Predictably, things don't go exactly as he planned.