L'Orestie (1856)

Original id:

4487

Start date:

5 January 1856

Degree of relationship to ancient play:

Adaptation

Production notes:

Verse tragedy in three acts. The first French adaptation since that by Népomucène in 1797.

Media of production:

Stage-play

Languages:

French

Companies:

Ancient works:

Information related to this production

Script	Author(s)
Agamemnon	Aeschylus
Choephoroi (The Libation Bearers)	Aeschylus
Eumenides	Aeschylus
Elektra	Euripides
Elektra	Sophocles AKA Sophokles
L'Orestie	Alexandre Dumas (père)

Venue	Festival	Dates	Notes
Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin (Paris, Île-de-France, France)		5 January, 1856	première

Source	Format	Location if held at the APGRD	Pagination
La Famille des Atrides dans la Litterature Française	Book	library	329-338
Le Théâtre antique et a l'antique en France de 1840 à 1900	Photograph	library	222
Aischylos auf der Bühne der Neuzeit	Chapter	archive	456
Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300-1990s. Vol.1	Book	library	71
Théatre Complet de Alex. Dumas	Photocopy	archive
A Bibliography of Alexandre Dumas, père	Photocopy	archive
Agamemnon in Performance: 458 BC to AD 2004	Book	library	2, 365-366

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