Agamemnon in Performance 458 BC to AD 2004
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 8 December 2005
- ISBN 9780199263516
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages502 pages
- Size 242x164x31 mm
- Weight 1018 g
- Language English
- Illustrations frontispiece, 38 halftones 0
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Short description:
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.
MoreLong 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.
It is impossible to do justice to the riches contained in Agamemnon in Performance...This book will be indispensable not only to those who work in reception and performance studies, but also to those interested in literary translation.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Agamemnons in performance
I. In Search of the Sources
`Agamemnon' for the ancients
`Striking too short at Greeks': the transmission of `Agamemnon' to the English Renaissance stage
Clytemnestra versus her Senecan tradition
Clytemnestra's ghost: the Aeschylean legacy in Gluck's Iphigenia operas
II. The Move to Modernity
`Agamemnon''s influence in Germany: Goethe, Schiller, and Wagner
Agamemnon: speaking the unspeakable
Viewing `Agamemnon' in 19th-century Britain
OTOTOTOI: Virginia Woolf and `the naked cry' of Cassandra
III. The Languages of Translation
Translation or transubstantiation
Staging `Agamemnon': the languages of translation
Pasolini's `Agamemnon': translation, screen version, performance
The Harrison version: `so long ago that it's become a song?'
IV. The International View
`Agamemnon' in Russia
Ariane Mnouchkine and the history of the French `Agamemnon'
The chorus of Aeschylus' `Agamemnon' in modern stage productions: towards the `performative turn'
The Millennium Project: `Agamemnon' in the United States
Epilogue
Cassandra: the prophet unveiled
Appendix
`Agamemnons' on the database
