After reading the introduction to Lysistrata I was very interested in seeing how the play would go. I liked the idea that the book was about "Love, not merely sex" (9) and "the bond between husband and wife" (9). The introduction gave me a great insight as to what was to come in the book.
Even though it did give you these main idea, i still had a lot of things to wonder about. Even though I knew the play involved sex and love and of course married couples and I knew the plot I was wondering how they would talk and how the abstinence for peace would come about and how simple or complex the language would be. But I definetely felt more prepared to read it because I knew the basic ideas.
Over all I think the introduction helped a lot in developing an idea about the play and looking back now I can understand more of what its talking about than I could before I read the play.
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I made the same observation about the introduction to the play which helped informed the reader as to what was to come. The introduction stressed the idea and importance that “sex is rarely lost of sight” (9) throughout the play. The introduction also suggests there is vital distinction between love, which is the bond between a husband and wife, and sex, which I thought was important to keep I mind while reading the play. The introduction really did help in understanding the play.
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