by Aeschylus
3 Ibid., 59.
4 Ibid., 82.
5 Ibid., 178.
6 Oliver Taplin, The Stagecraft of Aeschylus (New York: Oxford University Press, 1977), 34, 280, 300, 307, 339–41.
7 I have written about this elsewhere: see “Screaming in Translation,” in Peter Burian and Alan Shapiro, eds., Sophocles: Electra (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), 41–48.
8 The production was directed by Deborah Warner and played in London, Paris, Bradford, Glasgow and Derry in the early 1990s. See Fiona Shaw, “Electra Speechless,” in Francis M. Dunn, ed., Sophocles’ Electra in Performance (Stuttgart, 2001), 131–38.
9 Ibid., 136.
10 Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights 6.5, vol. 2 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1927), 35–37.
11 See Mark Ringer, Elektra and the Empty Urn: Metatheater and Role Playing in Sophocles (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998), and further bibliography there.
12 “Every poem is a misinterpretation of a parent poem,” says Harold Bloom in The Anxiety of Influence (New York: Oxford University Press, 1977). Bloom doesn’t quite believe in homage.
13 It is the first stanza of Auden’s preface to The Sea and the Mirror. In W. H. Auden, Collected Poems, ed. Edward Mendelson (New York: Knopf, 1991), 401.
14 Brian Kulick, correspondence, somewhat adapted.
15 Ibid.
16 Richard Kostelanetz, ed., John Cage: An Anthology (New York: Da Capo Press, 1991), 22.
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1. Greek drama (Tragedy)—Translations into English. 2. Agamemnon (Greek mythology)—Drama. 3. Electra (Greek mythology)—Drama. 4. Orestes (Greek mythology)—Drama. I. Carson, Anne, 1950–II. Aeschylus. Agamemnon. English. III. Sophocles. Electra. English. IV. Euripides. Orestes. English.
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