The Story of Orestes (1886)

Original id:

178

Start date:

13 May 1886

End date:

15 May 1886

Degree of relationship to ancient play:

Adaptation

Production notes:

A charity performance staged in aid of the London University Endowment Fund, and attended by the Prince and Princess of Wales.

Media of production:

Stage-play

Languages:

English

Companies:

Ancient works:

Information related to this production

Script	Author(s)
Agamemnon	Aeschylus
Eumenides	Aeschylus
Choephoroi (The Libation Bearers)	Aeschylus
Echoes of Hellas: The Tale of Troy and the Story of Orestes. (1887)	George Charles Winter Warr

Venue	Festival	Dates	Notes
Prince's Hall, Piccadilly (London, Greater London, England)		13 May, 1886 to 15 May, 1886	2 performances

Source	Format	Location if held at the APGRD	Pagination
The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy	Book	library	294
Olympian Dreamers: Victorian Classical Painters, 1860-1914	Book	archive	77-78
Agamemnon in Performance: 458 BC to AD 2004	Book	library	fig. 8.2, 158f., 167, 174, 367
The Story of Orestes and The Tale of Troy	Flyer	archive
The Story of Orestes	Photocopy	archive
Echoes of Hellas: A pianoforte arrangement of the music	Book	library
Echoes of Hellas: The Tale of Troy & The Story of Orestes	Book	library

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