Xanthippe a comedy

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>An irreverent look at the stormy marriage of Socrates and Xanthippe. </span>In the words of the author Xanthippe is not a play about a shrew or a taming of a shrew. It is in fact a comic dialog an anti-dialog--a parody of Plato's Symposium and Plato's dialogs in general. Moreover by challenging Plato's portrayal of Socrates Xanthippe seeks to raise a larger philosophical issue about the value of philosophy itself.</p><p></p>