Fiona Macintosh is Senior Research Fellow at the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, University of Oxford.Pantelis Michelakis is Lecturer in Classics, University of Bristol, and Honorary Fellow, Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, University of Oxford.Edith Hall is Leverhulme Professor of Greek Cultural History at the University of Durham, and Co-Director of the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, University of Oxford.Oliver Taplin is Professor of Classical Languages and Literature at the University of Oxford, and Fellow of the British Academy.

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.

• INTRODUCTION ; 1. Agamemnons in performance ; I. IN SEARCH OF THE SOURCES ; 2. 'Agamemnon' for the ancients ; 3. 'Striking too short at Greeks': the transmission of 'Agamemnon' to the English Renaissance stage ; 4. Clytemnestra versus her Senecan tradition ; 5. Clytemnestra's ghost: the Aeschylean legacy in Gluck's Iphigenia operas ; II. THE MOVE TO MODERNITY ; 6. 'Agamemnon"s influence in Germany: Goethe, Schiller, and Wagner ; 7. Agamemnon: speaking the unspeakable ; 8. Viewing 'Agamemnon' in 19th-century Britain ; 9. OTOTOTOI: Virginia Woolf and 'the naked cry' of Cassandra ; III. THE LANGUAGES OF TRANSLATION ; 10. Translation or transubstantiation ; 11. Staging 'Agamemnon': the languages of translation ; 12. Pasolini's 'Agamemnon': translation, screen version, performance ; 13. The Harrison version: 'so long ago that it's become a song?' ; IV. THE INTERNATIONAL VIEW ; 14. 'Agamemnon' in Russia ; 15. Ariane Mnouchkine and the history of the French 'Agamemnon' ; 16. The chorus of Aeschylus' 'Agamemnon' in modern stage productions: towards the 'performative turn' ; 17. The Millennium Project: 'Agamemnon' in the United States ; EPILOGUE ; 18. Cassandra: the prophet unveiled ; APPENDIX ; 19. 'Agamemnons' on the database

Fiona Macintosh is Senior Research Fellow at the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, University of Oxford.Pantelis Michelakis is Lecturer in Classics, University of Bristol, and Honorary Fellow, Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, University of Oxford.Edith Hall is Leverhulme Professor of Greek Cultural History at the University of Durham, and Co-Director of the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, University of Oxford.Oliver Taplin is Professor of Classical Languages and Literature at the University of Oxford, and Fellow of the British Academy.

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.

• INTRODUCTION ; 1. Agamemnons in performance ; I. IN SEARCH OF THE SOURCES ; 2. 'Agamemnon' for the ancients ; 3. 'Striking too short at Greeks': the transmission of 'Agamemnon' to the English Renaissance stage ; 4. Clytemnestra versus her Senecan tradition ; 5. Clytemnestra's ghost: the Aeschylean legacy in Gluck's Iphigenia operas ; II. THE MOVE TO MODERNITY ; 6. 'Agamemnon"s influence in Germany: Goethe, Schiller, and Wagner ; 7. Agamemnon: speaking the unspeakable ; 8. Viewing 'Agamemnon' in 19th-century Britain ; 9. OTOTOTOI: Virginia Woolf and 'the naked cry' of Cassandra ; III. THE LANGUAGES OF TRANSLATION ; 10. Translation or transubstantiation ; 11. Staging 'Agamemnon': the languages of translation ; 12. Pasolini's 'Agamemnon': translation, screen version, performance ; 13. The Harrison version: 'so long ago that it's become a song?' ; IV. THE INTERNATIONAL VIEW ; 14. 'Agamemnon' in Russia ; 15. Ariane Mnouchkine and the history of the French 'Agamemnon' ; 16. The chorus of Aeschylus' 'Agamemnon' in modern stage productions: towards the 'performative turn' ; 17. The Millennium Project: 'Agamemnon' in the United States ; EPILOGUE ; 18. Cassandra: the prophet unveiled ; APPENDIX ; 19. 'Agamemnons' on the database

Fiona Macintosh is Senior Research Fellow at the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, University of Oxford.Pantelis Michelakis is Lecturer in Classics, University of Bristol, and Honorary Fellow, Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, University of Oxford.Edith Hall is Leverhulme Professor of Greek Cultural History at the University of Durham, and Co-Director of the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, University of Oxford.Oliver Taplin is Professor of Classical Languages and Literature at the University of Oxford, and Fellow of the British Academy.

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.

• INTRODUCTION ; 1. Agamemnons in performance ; I. IN SEARCH OF THE SOURCES ; 2. 'Agamemnon' for the ancients ; 3. 'Striking too short at Greeks': the transmission of 'Agamemnon' to the English Renaissance stage ; 4. Clytemnestra versus her Senecan tradition ; 5. Clytemnestra's ghost: the Aeschylean legacy in Gluck's Iphigenia operas ; II. THE MOVE TO MODERNITY ; 6. 'Agamemnon"s influence in Germany: Goethe, Schiller, and Wagner ; 7. Agamemnon: speaking the unspeakable ; 8. Viewing 'Agamemnon' in 19th-century Britain ; 9. OTOTOTOI: Virginia Woolf and 'the naked cry' of Cassandra ; III. THE LANGUAGES OF TRANSLATION ; 10. Translation or transubstantiation ; 11. Staging 'Agamemnon': the languages of translation ; 12. Pasolini's 'Agamemnon': translation, screen version, performance ; 13. The Harrison version: 'so long ago that it's become a song?' ; IV. THE INTERNATIONAL VIEW ; 14. 'Agamemnon' in Russia ; 15. Ariane Mnouchkine and the history of the French 'Agamemnon' ; 16. The chorus of Aeschylus' 'Agamemnon' in modern stage productions: towards the 'performative turn' ; 17. The Millennium Project: 'Agamemnon' in the United States ; EPILOGUE ; 18. Cassandra: the prophet unveiled ; APPENDIX ; 19. 'Agamemnons' on the database