How many plays did Aristophanes write?

It is believed that the Greek dramatist Aristophanes wrote approximately 40 plays in total.1

As the greatest representative of ancient Greek Old Comedy, he is the only playwright of that era whose works have been preserved in significant quantity. His career began in 427 BCE with the play Daitaleis (The Banqueters), and his surviving body of work remains a vital source for understanding the social, literary, and political life of Athens during the Peloponnesian War.231