Agamemnon in Performance : 458 BC to AD 2004

by: Macintosh, F. Michelakis, P. Hall, E. Taplin, O.

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Agamemnon in Performance 458 BC to AD 2004
Edited by Fiona Macintosh
Pantelis Michelakis, Edith Hall, and Oliver Taplin
Represents entirely new, performance-based, interdisciplinary approach to the study of classical influences
Lavishly illustrated
Contains an enormous amount of visual and literary evidence that has never been discussed before

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.

Table of Contents
Introduction
1:Agamemnons in performance, Pantelis Michelakis
I. In Search of the Sources
2:`Agamemnon' for the ancients, Pat Easterling
3:`Striking too short at Greeks': the transmission of `Agamemnon' to the English Renaissance stage, Inga-Stina Ewbank
4:Clytemnestra versus her Senecan tradition, Edith Hall
5:Clytemnestra's ghost: the Aeschylean legacy in Gluck's Iphigenia operas, Susanna Phillipo
II. The Move to Modernity
6:`Agamemnon''s influence in Germany: Goethe, Schiller, and Wagner, Michael Ewans
7:Agamemnon: speaking the unspeakable, Margaret Reynolds
8:Viewing `Agamemnon' in 19th-century Britain, Fiona Macintosh
9:OTOTOTOI: Virginia Woolf and `the naked cry' of Cassandra, Yopie Prins
III. The Languages of Translation
10:Translation or transubstantiation, J. Michael Walton
11:Staging `Agamemnon': the languages of translation, Lorna Hardwick
12:Pasolini's `Agamemnon': translation, screen version, performance, Massimo Fusillo
13:The Harrison version: `so long ago that it's become a song?', Oliver Taplin
IV. The International View
14:`Agamemnon' in Russia, Dimitry Trubotchkin
15:Ariane Mnouchkine and the history of the French `Agamemnon', Pierre Judet de la Combe
16:The chorus of Aeschylus' `Agamemnon' in modern stage productions: towards the `performative turn', Anton Bierl
17:The Millennium Project: `Agamemnon' in the United States, Helene Foley
Epilogue
18:Cassandra: the prophet unveiled, Rush Rehm
Appendix
19:`Agamemnons' on the database, Amanda Wrigley

Agamemnon in Performance : 458 BC to AD 2004

by: Macintosh, F. Michelakis, P. Hall, E. Taplin, O.

• ISBN-13: 9780199263516 / 978-0-19-926351-6
• ISBN-03: 0199263515 / 0-19-926351-5
• Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005

Price: 129,00 EURO

(in stock)