Iphigenia
By: Johann Wolfgang Goethe ; version (translated) by Meredith Oakes
Contributors: Oakes, Meredith
Series: Oberon modern plays
Publisher: Oberon Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 75
ISBN-13: 9781849431644
Subjects: Drama; Iphigenia (Greek mythology); Translations into English; German drama
Work titles: Iphigenie auf Tauris
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...
Notes: Translation commissioned by Theatre Royal Bath.