Agamemnon in Performance: 458 BC to AD 2004

by Edith Hall and Fiona Macintosh

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199263515
• ISBN13: 9780199263516
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 502 Pages
• Weight: 1.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"