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Title Agamemnon in performance 458 BC to AD 2004 / edited by Fiona Macintosh [and others]
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 484 pages) : illustrations
Series OUP E-Books
Contents List of Illustrations; List of Contributors; Note on Nomenclature, Spelling and Texts; 1. Introduction: Agamemnons in Performance; SECTION I: IN SEARCH OF THE SOURCES; SECTION II: THE MOVE TO MODERNITY; SECTION III: THE LANGUAGES OF TRANSLATION; SECTION IV: THE INTERNATIONAL VIEW; References; Index
Summary This interdisciplinary, multi-author volume is devoted to the performance reception of Aeschylus's Agamemnon, the first play in his Oresteia trilogy. The eighteen essays trace the story of the impact and influence of this seminal play, from its original performance in classical Athens, through ancient Rome and the European Renaissance until the present day. Genres discussed include film, the novel, and lyric poetry as well as theatre and opera. The volume is fully. illustrated, and includes an extensive bibliography and chronological appendix. - ;Aeschylus' Agamemnon, the first play in the Ore
Analysis Agamemnon
Performance
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 436-459) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Aeschylus. Agamemnon.
Aeschylus -- Stage history
Aeschylus
SUBJECT Agamemnon (Aeschylus) fast
Subject DRAMA -- Ancient, Classical & Medieval.
Genre/Form Drama
Form Electronic book
Author Macintosh, Fiona, 1959-
LC no. 2006296806
ISBN 142942172X
9781429421720
0191514691
9780191514692
1280756632
9781280756634
9786610756636
6610756635