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Agamemnon, a performance history (ebook)

Front cover of the Agamemnon ebook, featuring six illustrated tarot-style cards depicting scenes from the tragedy
Cover page for the Beginnings section of the Agamemnon ebook
A page from the Agamemnon ebook showing the House of Atreus family tree.
A page from the Agamemnon ebook, showing an Iranian adaptation.
A page from the Agamemnon ebook on the cycle of violence and the South African adaptation, Molora.
Cover page for the 'homecoming' chapter of the Agamemnon ebook.
A page from the Agamemnon ebook on Clytemnestra's triumph, with images from the Almeida Oresteia.
Fiona Macintosh and Claire Kenward
2020
    About

    Agamemnon: A Performance History is a free interactive/multimedia ebook on the production history of Aeschylus’ ancient tragedy, Agamemnon. Created by the University of Oxford’s Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (the APGRD), the ebook draws on a unique collection of archive material and research at the APGRD and beyond; it uses images, film, bespoke interviews with creative practitioners and academics, and digital objects to tell the story of a play that has inspired countless interpretations onstage and onscreen, in dance, drama, and opera, across the globe from antiquity to the present day. 

    Publisher
    Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama
    1. Beginnings
    2. Whose Play?
    3. Homecoming
    4. Lyric
    5. Endings
    6. Iconography