Word: agammenon
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...After the play," says William Alfred, a Teaching Fellow in English, "some people felt that they could talk to me only about iambic pentameter, really the most boring thing." The play, Agammenon, produced as a dramatic reading at Sanders Theatre just two weeks ago, had its birth in a translation which Alfred made at Brooklyn College in 1948. "It was a loose, double-jointed piece but both Brooklyn and Hunter put on the first two acts--in turtle-neck sweaters and bobby socks." Then in Archibald MacLeish's writing course Sb, Alfred rewrote his academic work as a play, taking...
Over the past three years, he has been collaborating on Milton's Of Reformation. "That ought to be out any century now; it's one of those things built for fifty years." Alfred has published in Hudsons, Commonwealth, and next fall his Agammenon will appear in Botega Oscura. "I disagree with people who say you shouldn't publish until you have a matured expresson. You can learn a lot from the shock of seeing your own stuff on a printed page...
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