By Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides
In An Oresteia, the classicist Anne Carson combines 3 varied types of the tragedy of the home of Atreus ― A iskhylos' Agamemnon, Sophokles' Elektra and Euripides' Orestes. After the homicide of her daughter Iphigeneia by way of her husband, Agamemnon, Klytaimestra exacts a mother's revenge, murdering Agamemnon and his mistress, Kassandra. Displeased with Klytaimestra's activities, Apollo calls on her son, Orestes, to avenge his father's demise with the aid of his sister Elektra. finally, Orestes is pushed mad via the Furies for his bloody betrayal of family members. Condemned to loss of life through the folks of Argos, he and Elektra needs to justify their activities ― or flout society, justice and the gods.
Carson's translation combines modern language with the conventional buildings and rhetoric of Greek tragedy, establishing up this historic story of vengeance to a contemporary viewers and revealing the basic wit and morbidity of the unique performs.
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In her spare time, she held conferences with writers to address the early stages of their work, went to lunch at the Dorset Café or Sardi’s with producers to discuss options, attended staged readings of her clients’ plays, and saw new plays by playwrights in need of agents. Despite years of theatergoing, Audrey operated largely on instinct and intuition—“a green light flashing in her head”—as she called her moments of inspiration when deciding to take on a playwright’s script. She frequently explained to interviewers that she could pick up a new script by an author whose work was unfamiliar, and within the first ten pages or so, she usually knew whether or not she was reading the work of someone with talent.
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