Word: agamemnon
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...directors David Mills and Edward Leavitt have taken liberties with the text, their additions are striking. As the watchman finishes his opening soliloquy and leaves the stage, Clytemnestra and Aegisthus burst through the curtain and look with surprise, with fear, finally with scorn on the beacon that tells them Agamemnon will be returning from Troy. While the king is being welcomed home by his queen, the herald who had earlier trumpeted his own joy at returning to Argos watches his wife turn away from him, a symbol of what will happen to Agamemnon...
...translated by Richmond Lattimore. And not content with giving us the lush lines, they have given us memorable characters. No one who was in Sanders Theatre last night will ever forget Joan Tolentino's Clytemnestra. "A woman merely," she describes herself, yet she dominates the stage. She outfaces Agamemnon; she towers over Aegisthus (and the directors emphasize this by placing her a level above him on the stage as she snaps down the Argive elders...
Enter the Turks. Greek influence in Cyprus dates back to the Trojan War, more than 1,000 years before Christ. Homer sang of friendship between Agamemnon and Kinyras, a king of Cyprus, and Greek colonists brought their culture to the island in later centuries. Assyrians, Egyptians, Persians, Romans and Franks came after, but the Greek influence endured, flourishing during the Byzantine Empire. Then came the Turks...
...until his death he found time to publish more than a dozen books, both fiction and nonfiction, besides a steady stream of shorter pieces in addition to his regular Globe articles. A year ago he wrote for the CRIMSON a long first-hand account of the 1906 production of Agamemnon given in Greek at the Harvard Stadium...
Marlowe's plays will be performed as concert readings, similar to the production of Alfred's Agamemnon last month...