Agamemnon (1906)

Original id:

4049

Start date:

16 June 1906

End date:

19 June 1906

Degree of relationship to ancient play:

Original language

Production notes:

Performed before an audience of four thousand.

Media of production:

Stage-play

Languages:

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Companies:

University of Harvard (Harvard Classical Club)

Ancient works:

Information related to this production

Scripts used
People involved
Places performed
Sources

Script	Author(s)
Agamemnon	Aeschylus

Person	Role	Notes
Alfred Benshimal	Actor	Aegisthus
Frank Birch	Actor	Coryphaeus
Arunah S. Brady	Actor	Cassandra
Mark Clinton Clapp	Actor	Watchman
Doane Gardiner	Actor	Herald
John Ellerton Cabot Lodge	Composer
Perley Hayward Noyes	Actor	Agamemnon
Herbert S. Wyndham-Gittens	Actor	Clytaemnestra

Venue	Festival	Dates	Notes
University of Harvard (Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)		16 June, 1906 to 19 June, 1906	in the Stadium

Source	Format	Location if held at the APGRD	Pagination
Living Greek Theatre: A Handbook of Classical Performance and Modern Production	Book	library	355
History of Greek Play Production in American Colleges and Universities from 1881 to 1936	Photocopy	library	18, 73, 75-76, 83, 88, 98-99, 103
100 years of the Classical Club	Flyer	archive
Classical Journal	Photocopy	library	various
The Greek play at Harvard	Photocopy	archive
Mr Gardiner as the Herald	Photocopy	archive
The play is a difficult undertaking …	Photocopy	archive
Clytemnestra's greeting to the victorious Agamemnon	Photocopy	archive
Harvard Alumni Bulletin	Photocopy	archive
Leonard Bernstein: The Harvard Years, 1935-1939	Book	library	80
Aischylou Agamemnon	Print-out	archive
Agamemnon, the Greek Play at Harvard, 1906	Print-out	archive
Email from Charles Benjamin Watson to Amanda Wrigley	Print-out	archive
Aeschylus, Agamemnon	Score
Greek Plays in America	Print-out	archive
Agamemnon in Performance: 458 BC to AD 2004	Book	library	10 n. 23, 13 n. 29, 308, 370

How to cite this production

Agamemnon (1906), accessed at http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/productions/production/4049 <22 November 2024>