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Agamemnon in Performance 458 BC to AD 2004

Cover page of 'Agamemnon in Performance', in red and white writing across a photo of an actor holding a red tapestry.
Fiona Macintosh, Pantelis Michelakis, Edith Hall, and Oliver Taplin
2005
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An entirely new, performance-based, interdisciplinary approach to the study of classical influences, this volume contains eighteen essays on the performance history of Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, one of the most influential theatrical texts in the global canon, with contributions from classical scholars, theatre historians, and experts in English and comparative literature. Lavishly illustrated, it contains an enormous amount of visual and literary evidence that has never been discussed before.  

Publisher
Oxford University Press
See the volume on the OUP website
  1. Pantelis Michelakis, ‘Agamemnons in performance’ 
  1. Pat Easterling, Agamemnon for the ancients’ 
  1. Inga-Stina Ewbank '"Striking too short at Greeks": the transmission of Agamemnon to the English Renaissance stage’ 
  1. Edith Hall, ‘Clytemnestra versus her Senecan tradition’ 
  1. Susanna Phillipo, ‘Clytemnestra's ghost: the Aeschylean legacy in Gluck's Iphigenia operas’ 
  1. Michael Ewans, 'Agamemnon's influence in Germany: Goethe, Schiller, and Wagner’ 
  1. Margaret Reynolds, ‘Agamemnon: speaking the unspeakable’ 
  1. Fiona Macintosh, ‘Viewing Agamemnon in 19th-century Britain’ 
  1. Yopie Prins, ‘OTOTOTOI: Virginia Woolf and "the naked cry" of Cassandra’ 
  1. J. Michael Walton, ‘Translation or transubstantiation’ 
  1. Lorna Hardwick, ‘Staging Agamemnon: the languages of translation’ 
  1. Massimo Fusillo, ‘Pasolini's Agamemnon: translation, screen version, performance’ 
  1. Oliver Taplin, ‘The Harrison version: "so long ago that it's become a song?"'
  1. Dimitry Trubotchkin, 'Agamemnon in Russia’ 
  1. Pierre Judet de la Combe, ‘Ariane Mnouchkine and the history of the French Agamemnon'
  1. Anton Bierl, ‘The chorus of Aeschylus' Agamemnon in modern stage productions: towards the "performative turn"'
  1. Helene Foley, ‘The Millennium Project: Agamemnon in the United States’ 
  1. Rush Rehm, ‘Cassandra: the prophet unveiled’ 
  1. Amanda Wrigley, ‘Appendix: ‘Agamemnons on the database’