question: Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics is a book that contains lyrics from a song that was "freely adpted" from an ancient greek comedy by who?
answer: Aristophanes
context: Title: The Frogs (musical)
  Passage: The Frogs is a musical "freely adapted" by Stephen Sondheim and Burt Shevelove from "The Frogs", an Ancient Greek comedy by Aristophanes.  Dionysus, despairing of the quality of living dramatists, travels to Hades to bring George Bernard Shaw back from the dead.  William Shakespeare competes with Shaw for the title of best playwright, which he wins.  Dionysus chooses to bring Shakespeare back, thereby improving the world and its political situation; art saves civilization.
  Title: Oi Treis Harites
  Passage: Oi Treis Harites (Greek: Οι Τρεις Χάριτες , "The Three Harites") is a Greek comedy series created by Michalis Reppas and Thanasis Papathanasiou which aired on Mega Channel from February 8, 1990 to April 20, 1992.  The name "Harites" was taken partly from ancient Greek mythology (The Three Graces) and partly from their surname, which was "Haritou".
  Title: Finishing the Hat
  Passage: Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics (1954–1981) with Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines and Anecdotes is a book by American musical theatre composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim.  The book contains Sondheim's lyrics from his first professionally staged show, "Saturday Night" (1954) through "West Side Story", "", "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum", "Anyone Can Whistle", "Do I Hear a Waltz? ", "Company", "Follies", "A Little Night Music", "The Frogs", "Pacific Overtures", "", and ending with "Merrily We Roll Along" (1981), stopping just short of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Sunday in the Park with George" (1984) which contains the song from which the title of the book is taken.
  Title: The Candy Man
  Passage: "The Candy Man" (or alternatively, "The Candy Man Can") is a song which originally appeared in the 1971 film "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory".  It was written by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley specifically for the film.  Although the original book by Roald Dahl ("Charlie and the Chocolate Factory") contains lyrics adapted for other songs in the film, the lyrics to "The Candy Man" do not appear in the book.  The soundtrack version of the song was sung by Aubrey Woods, who played Bill the candy store owner in the film.
  Title: Cordax
  Passage: The cordax (Ancient Greek: Κόρδαξ ), was a provocative, licentious, and often obscene mask dance of ancient Greek comedy.  In his play "The Clouds," Aristophanes complains that other playwrights of his time try to hide the feebleness of their plays by bringing an old woman onto the stage to dance the cordax.  He notes with pride that his patrons will not find such gimmicks in his plays.
  Title: There Must Be Another Way
  Passage: "There Must Be Another Way" is a song by Israeli singers Noa and Mira Awad, and was Israel's entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009, finishing 16th with 53 points.  The song competed in the first semifinal on 12 May, qualifying for the final round.  The song was composed by Noa, Awad, and Gil Dor, and contains lyrics in English, Hebrew and Arabic.
  Title: Dyskolos
  Passage: Dyskolos (Greek: , ] , translated as "The Grouch", "The Misanthrope", "The Curmudgeon", "The Bad-tempered Man" or "Old Cantankerous") is an Ancient Greek comedy by Menander, the only one of his plays, and of the whole "New Comedy", that has survived in almost complete form.  It was first presented at the Lenaian festival in 317–16 BC, where it won Menander the first-place prize.  It was long known only through fragmentary quotations; but a papyrus manuscript of the nearly complete "Dyskolos, "dating to the 3rd century, was recovered in Egypt in 1952 and forms part of the Bodmer Papyri.
citations: Finishing the Hat The Frogs (musical)