Shakespeare Night: Agamemnon
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After having read aloud the works of Shakepeare, including the poems and selections from the Shakespeare apocrypha, we decided to spend about a year reading Greek plays.
We'll start with the Oresteia of Aeschylus. Our schedule will be:
September 18: Agamemnon
October 16: The Libation Bearers
November 20: The Eumenides
Reading Shakespeare, we had a bit of fun comparing the editions that various readers brought: the Folio edition, the Quarto edition, and various scholarly attempts to adjudicate or combine differences. With the Greeks, we have the more variable issue of multiple translations. Among the best regarded are the translations of Grene and Lattimore. However, copyright issues prevent us from making this canonical.
In addition, we have been using Jesse Lansner's software to facilitate the assignment of roles. If we can find a site with a good set of translations that his software can be made to handle, we will probably make that canonical. We'll announce any such choice here. However, at the start, feel free to bring any edition you like.