Word: aeschylus
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Between 1959 and 1963, Wills wrote books on Chesterton, Catholicism and Roman culture, in addition to working on a doctoral dissertation on Aeschylus. During the '60s, his pieces in Esquire and the Saturday Evening Post established him as a journalist of the first rank. His Nixon Ag- onistes (1969) still has the longest shelf-life of any book on the former President. Last year Historian Wills published Inventing America, a fresh look at the roots of Jefferson's Declaration of Independence. The work has already won several literary prizes. A few weeks ago, he was holed...
...enlarge his choices and control his existence. This made his obligation to help all who had been wronged the more acute and poignant. Robert Kennedy at last traveled in that speculative area where doubt lived. He returned from the dangerous journey, his faith intact, but deepened, enriched. From Aeschylus and Camus he drew a sort of Christian stoicism and fatalism: a conviction that man could not escape his destiny, but that this did not relieve him of the responsibility of fulfilling his own best self . . . Life was a sequence of risks. To fail to meet them was to destroy...
AGAMEMNON by AESCHYLUS...
Revisionist drama has become the bane of the theater. It is merciful that Shakespeare, Chekhov and Aeschylus are not alive to view the bizarre "improvements" inflicted upon their classic works by the whims of directors like Peter Brook and Andrei Serban...
...Aeschylus' Oresteia: The Classical Greek Trilogy of Agamemnon, Clytemnestra and Orestes. A new adaptation directed by Joann Green and performed by the Cambridge Ensemble at 115 Mass Ave. Playing Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm through Feb. 26. Tickets are $3 and $4. For info, call...