Agamemnon in Performance, 458 BC to AD 2004

Name: Agamemnon in Performance, 458 BC to AD 2004
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ISBN: 9780199263516

ISBN-10: 0199263515

ISBN-13: 9780199263516

Edition: 2005

Authors: Fiona Macintosh, Pantelis Michelakis, Edith Hall, Oliver Taplin

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Aeschylus' Agamemnon, the first play in the Oresteia trilogy, is one of the most influential theatrical texts in the global canon. In performance, translation, adaptation, along with sung and danced interpretations, it has been familiar in the Greek world and the Roman empire, and from the Renaissance to the contemporary stage. It has been central to the aesthetic and intellectual avant-garde as well as to radical politics of all complexions and to feminist thinking. Contributors to this interdisciplinary collection of eighteen essays on its performance history include classical scholars, theatre historians, and experts in English and comparative literature. All Greek and Latin has been…

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List price: $225.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/23/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 504
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.222
Language: English



Introduction



Agamemnons in performance




In Search of the Sources



`Agamemnon' for the ancients




`Striking too short at Greeks': the transmission of `Agamemnon' to the English Renaissance stage




Clytemnestra versus her Senecan tradition




Clytemnestra's ghost: the Aeschylean legacy in Gluck's Iphigenia operas




The Move to Modernity



`Agamemnon''s influence in Germany: Goethe, Schiller, and Wagner




Agamemnon: speaking the unspeakable




Viewing `Agamemnon' in 19th-century Britain




OTOTOTOI: Virginia Woolf and `the naked cry' of Cassandra




The Languages of Translation



Translation or transubstantiation




Staging `Agamemnon': the languages of translation




Pasolini's `Agamemnon': translation, screen version, performance




The Harrison version: `so long ago that it's become a song?'




The International View



`Agamemnon' in Russia




Ariane Mnouchkine and the history of the French `Agamemnon'




The chorus of Aeschylus' `Agamemnon' in modern stage productions: towards the `performative turn'




The Millennium Project: `Agamemnon' in the United States



Epilogue



Cassandra: the prophet unveiled



Appendix



`Agamemnons' on the database