Word: clytaemnestra
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Dates: during 1906-1906
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...than three thousand people. The weather conditions were perfect, so that the elaborate costuming of the cast and the brilliant stage setting appeared to the best advantage. The acting, likewise, showed noticeable improvement over that of Saturday's performance, particularly that of the Trojan princess, Cassandra, and the queen, Clytaemnestra. F. H. Birch 2L., in the long and difficult role of Leader of the Chorus, executed the part admirably...
...published in the CRIMSON next Monday, but in general it may be said that the diction was clear and forcible without being strained, and the inflection flexible and natural. In gestures, too, extraordinary ease was shown. In both motions and expression, Wyndham-Gittens, in the difficult part of Clytaemnestra, and Brady, as Cassandra, showed extraordinary power...
...stage, chanting as they march. They remain on the stage throughout the play, and in their choral odes express the popular feeling of the men of Argos in regard to the events portrayed there. Agamemnon soon returns from Troy, bringing in his train the Trojan captive, Cassandra, of whom Clytaemnestra is jealous. Despite the king's request to have the prisoner treated gently, the queen orders her roughly into the palace. Cassandra foresees her tragic fate, but is unable to persuade the men of Argos that she is being lured to death. In despair, she enters the gates...
...cast, which is made up exclusively of students in the University, is as follows, the principal actors being arranged in the order of their appearance on the stage: Watchman, M. C. Clapp '07 Clytaemnestra, H. S. Wyndham-Gittens '06 Herald, D. Gardiner '07 Agamemnon, P. H. Noyes '06 Cassandra, A. S. A. Brady '08 Aegisthus, A. L. Benshimol '07 Leader of Chorus, F. H. Birch...
...heritage of Iphigenis, daughter of King Agamemnon and Queen Clytaemnestra, was a calamity provoked by successive violations of the law of God. Deceit, treachery, fatal ambition, adultery, the atrocities, of revenge that studied the refinements of retaliation, the murder of a husband, of a daughter, of a father--these form the tale of the house of Agamemnon. Of this line the most tragic figure is Agamemnon, who slew his daughter as a sacrifice, and, upon his triumphal return from the Trojan war, was ignominiously butchered by his faithless queen. Such, in short, is the plot...