Shakespeare Night: "The Libation Bearers"

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 are starting with the Oresteia of Aeschylus, which began with Agamemnon on September 18, 2017. Our schedule will be:

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. So feel free to bring any edition you like. Various readers read from various translations when we read Agamemnon, and it was actually fun comparing them (though sometimes a challenge to follow along in a different edition).

I've put together a list of main characters with an implied plot synopsis at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lMUfj5j4G7yP9nxdPBWebDgW_ZEbYMbVTVIp5X4G1ik/edit?usp=sharing