Word: clytemnestra
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...essentially a copy. The theatre, therefore, thoroughly adapted itself to the setting of the ancient stage. The floor before the stage was occupied as of old by the chorus about the altar, and from it an easy flight of marble steps led to the court before the palace of Clytemnestra. The palace itself was represented by the schene and paraschene of the stage. It is impossible to enter here into a synopsis of the play. Suffice it to say the tragedy retains for an American audience an astonishing interest, and bring vividly before us the fact that in many ways...
...Oxonians as the 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...
...time, but was soon obliged to recant. Within the Agora of Mycenae five tombs were opened, and the many golden ornaments found therein undoubtedly belong to the Heroic Age. The speaker thought that although Schleimann has not made the romantic discovery of the tombs of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra upon the hill at Hissarlik, yet he has made discoveries more important to archaeology. Out of its height of 112 feet, the real hill of Hissarlik is but 60 feet, the remaining 52 feet being composed of the accumulated ruins of six cities. The third of these buried cities is supposed...