Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Note on Nomenclature, Spelling and Texts -- 1. Introduction: Agamemnons in Performance -- SECTION I: IN SEARCH OF THE SOURCES -- 2. Agamemnon for the Ancients -- 3. 'Striking too short at Greeks': The Transmission of Agamemnon to the English Renaissance Stage -- 4. Aeschylus' Clytemnestra versus her Senecan Tradition -- 5. Clytemnestra's Ghost: the Aeschylean Legacy in Gluck's Iphigenia Operas -- SECTION II: THE MOVE TO MODERNITY -- 6. Agamemnon's Influence in Germany: Goethe, Schiller, and Wagner -- 7. Agamemnon: Speaking the Unspeakable -- 8. Viewing Agamemnon in Nineteenth-Century Britain -- 9. OTOTOTOI: Virgina Woolf and 'The Naked Cry' of Cassandra -- SECTION III: THE LANGUAGES OF TRANSLATION -- 10. Translation or Transubstantiation -- 11. Staging Agamemnon: The Languages of Translation -- 12. Pasolini's Agamemnon: Translation, Screen Version and Performance -- 13. The Harrison Version: 'So long ago that it's become a song?' -- SECTION IV: THE INTERNATIONAL VIEW -- 14. Agamemnon in Russia -- 15. Ariane Mnouchkine and the History of the French Agamemnon -- 16. The Chorus of Aeschylus' Agamemnon in Modern Stage Productions: Towards the 'Performative Turn' -- 17. The Millennium Project: Agamemnon in the United States -- 18. Epilogue: Cassandra-The Prophet Unveiled -- 19. Appendix: Agamemnons on the APGRD Database -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.