Word: agamemnon
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Next year Alfred takes a sabbatical from Harvard and already his calendar is filled with teaching stints across the country and with less academic projects such as openings in Dublin and London for Hogan and ("in the wind") a Paris production of Agamemnon with Ingrid Bergman as Clytemenestre. And what with all the hoopla, he feels it may be a good time to bring some more works out of the drawer. Already finished are 40 pages of a comedy about long Irish engagements in Brooklyn, and then there's the near inevitability of the Hogan's Goat scenario. "But after...
...decision to write plays shows the same kind of early uncertainty (even though he now claims he's "hooked on playwriting"). He first wrote poetry because one of his teachers at Brooklyn College "sold his baby grand and started a poetry magazine" but in 1946 did a translation of Agamemnon "which was no good" partly because it was half-translation and half-play. It was after this that he then began to write for the theatre in earnest and has stuck to the form ever since. It was suggested to him once that Hogan's Goat was really a novel...
...decision to write plays shows the same kind of early uncertainty (even though he now claims he's "hooked on playwriting"). He first wrote poetry because one of his teachers at Brooklyn College "sold his baby grand and started a poetry magazine" but in 1946 did a translation of Agamemnon "which was no good" partly because it was half-translation and half-play. It was after this that he then began to write for the theatre in earnest and has stuck to the form ever since. It was suggested to him once that Hogan's Goat was really a novel...
...Professor William Alfred's bit play, Hogan's Goat, will be produced in Dublin this September. Another of Alfred's plays, Agamemnon, will open in Paris at the same time. Alfred, on sabbatical next year, plans to spend some time in Ireland "to keep an eye on things...
...play, Clytemnestra is not depicted as the traditional villainess but, according to Alfred, as "a good woman who, in a fit of rage over the death of her daughter, strikes Agamemnon, whom she blames for the loss...