Word: agamemnon
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...whole caste deserve high commendation for their interpretation of their parts, but if one must discriminate one may say with justice that Mr. Whitlesey as Orestes, Miss Hamilton as Electra, and Mr. Platt as a former relative of Agamemnon, excelled. The old man's vivid recital of the alleged death of Orestes, was particularly well done and deserves especial mention. The acting of the chorus, too, as they hung listening on the old man's lips was very lifelike. Every gesture. every attitude betrayed each change of feeling during his recital...
...Sanders, and therefore mention of it here will not be out of place. The play is performed exclusively by students of the American Academy of Dramatic Art, and yesterday afternoon they reflected much credit upon their school by performing difficult parts of the tragedy with great carefulness and impressiveness. Agamemnon, on his return from Troy, had been murdered by his wife, and her paramour. Orestes, son of Agamemnon, then a child, had been rescued from the clutches of his father's murderers by his sister Electra, and sent into Phocis. Eight years later he returns to take vengeance...
CLASSICAL LANGUAGES. 1. Discuss the plan of the battle of Salamis and the movement of the Persians that preceded it. 2. Why does Aeschylus make Argos, not Mycenae, the home of Agamemnon? 3. Discuss the effect of appeals to sympathy and gratitude upon impartial justice at Athens...
...scene of many a friot and unlimited uproar, is again reopened in term-time and the "Shakesperian and English Comedy Company" is now giving English plays in it. The company has been organized by Mr. F. Benson, who made a reputation a few years ago as Clytemnestra in the "Agamemnon...
...Spectator, speaking of the representation of the Ajax at Cambridge recently, says: "Some one said at the time that to compare the Oxford 'Agamemnon' to the Harvard 'OEdipus' was to compare a picnic with a banquet. If this were true of Harvard, it is equally true that the Ajax is well able to hold...