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Agamemnon in performance 458 BC to AD 2004

By Oliver Taplin , Fiona Macintosh , Pantelis Michelakis , Edith Hall

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2005
ISBN
0199263515, 9780199263516
LCC
PA3825.A8 A43 2005
Open Library ID
OL10146308M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7120798 bytes)
Pages
501\501
Library
ebook3000.com
Time added
2010-05-17 00:23:50

Description

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 translated; the book is generously illustrated, and supplemented with the useful research aid of a chronological appendix of performances.

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