| Iphigenia Contributor(s): Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von (Author), Oakes, Meredith (Adapted by) |
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ISBN: 1849431647 ISBN-13: 9781849431644 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC OUR PRICE: $14.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 822 |
| LCCN: 2011507747 |
| Series: Oberon Modern Plays |
| Physical Information: 0.2" H x 5" W x 8" (0.25 lbs) 96 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Greek fleet bound for Troy is becalmed. For the sake of a wind, Agamemnon, leader of the Greek forces, is persuaded that he must sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia. But as the priest raises his knife to slit the child's throat, the goddess Diana spirits her away. Clytemnestra, Agamemnon's wife, believing her beloved daughter to be dead, slays her husband in revenge on hisreturn from the Trojan wars. Their son, Orestes, avenges his father's death by killing his mother. Now, years later, as Iphigenia, a prisoner of the temple of Diana, looks across the sea to Greece, longing to return home, her brother Orestes arrives... |