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Agamemnon in Performance 458 BC to AD 2004 Fiona Macintosh (Senior Research Fellow at the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, University of Oxford)

Agamemnon in Performance 458 BC to AD 2004 By Fiona Macintosh (Senior Research Fellow at the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, University of Oxford)

Agamemnon in Performance 458 BC to AD 2004 by Fiona Macintosh (Senior Research Fellow at the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, University of Oxford)

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Deals with the performance reception of Aeschylus's Agamemnon, the first play in his Oresteia trilogy. This volume traces the story of the impact and influence of this seminal play, since its original performance in classical Athens, through ancient Rome and the European Renaissance. Genres discussed include film, the novel, and lyric poetry.

Agamemnon in Performance 458 BC to AD 2004 Summary

Agamemnon in Performance 458 BC to AD 2004 by Fiona Macintosh (Senior Research Fellow at the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, University of Oxford)

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.

Agamemnon in Performance 458 BC to AD 2004 Reviews

It is impossible to do justice to the riches contained in Agamemnon in Performance...This book will be indispensable not only to those who work in reception and performance studies, but also to those interested in literary translation. * Betine van Zyl Smit, Hermathena *
The volume does a remarkable job examining the reception of Agamemnon from antiquity to the present. * Hallie Rebecca Marshall, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
This volume shows how performance history has advanced far beyond the counting of new styles of stage sets, or lists of productions...[it] provides a necessary basis for such advanced historical work to proceed. * Simon Goldhill, Times Literary Supplement *

About Fiona Macintosh (Senior Research Fellow at the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, University of Oxford)

Fiona Macintosh is Senior Research Fellow at the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, University of Oxford. Pantelis Michelakis is Lecturer in Classics, University of Bristol, and Honorary Fellow, Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, University of Oxford. Edith Hall is Leverhulme Professor of Greek Cultural History at the University of Durham, and Co-Director of the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, University of Oxford. Oliver Taplin is Professor of Classical Languages and Literature at the University of Oxford, and Fellow of the British Academy.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION ; 1. Agamemnons in performance ; I. IN SEARCH OF THE SOURCES ; 2. 'Agamemnon' for the ancients ; 3. 'Striking too short at Greeks': the transmission of 'Agamemnon' to the English Renaissance stage ; 4. Clytemnestra versus her Senecan tradition ; 5. Clytemnestra's ghost: the Aeschylean legacy in Gluck's Iphigenia operas ; II. THE MOVE TO MODERNITY ; 6. 'Agamemnons influence in Germany: Goethe, Schiller, and Wagner ; 7. Agamemnon: speaking the unspeakable ; 8. Viewing 'Agamemnon' in 19th-century Britain ; 9. OTOTOTOI: Virginia Woolf and 'the naked cry' of Cassandra ; III. THE LANGUAGES OF TRANSLATION ; 10. Translation or transubstantiation ; 11. Staging 'Agamemnon': the languages of translation ; 12. Pasolini's 'Agamemnon': translation, screen version, performance ; 13. The Harrison version: 'so long ago that it's become a song?' ; IV. THE INTERNATIONAL VIEW ; 14. 'Agamemnon' in Russia ; 15. Ariane Mnouchkine and the history of the French 'Agamemnon' ; 16. The chorus of Aeschylus' 'Agamemnon' in modern stage productions: towards the 'performative turn' ; 17. The Millennium Project: 'Agamemnon' in the United States ; EPILOGUE ; 18. Cassandra: the prophet unveiled ; APPENDIX ; 19. 'Agamemnons' on the database

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NPB9780199263516
9780199263516
0199263515
Agamemnon in Performance 458 BC to AD 2004 by Fiona Macintosh (Senior Research Fellow at the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, University of Oxford)
Fiona Macintosh (Senior Research Fellow at the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, University of Oxford)
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2005-12-08
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