EBOOK Agamemnon in Performance 458 BC to AD 2004

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 usefulresearch aid of a chronological        appendix of performances.