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The essence of Aeschylus's famous trilogy in a single play that speaks forcefully to today's audiences. In lean, lyrical poetry, Rob Hardy's adaptation highlights all the glory of the original: With a foreword, an introduction, notes, and figures. Called ""masterful"" by Thomas Van Nortwick, professor of classics (emeritus), Oberlin College. Rob Hardy is a Minnesota poet and classicist who has published poems and essays in a wide range of publications.

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The Oresteia by Rob Hardy offered its audience a heady bouquet of new wine drawn from an old wineskin.... [It] has pared down the Oresteia to a manageable two-hour performance.... [and] offers a stripped-down style in which every word counts and immediacy trumps Aeschylean grandeur. Classicists may miss some of their favorite Aeschylean motifs; in the Watchman's speech, for example, there is no 'resting on my elbows like a dog' or 'a woman's hopeful heart, which plans like a man.' At the same time, Hardy has succeeded in producing a script that is evocative and unhurried. Like that of Ted Hughes before him, Hardy's script lingers on his favorite Aeschylean images and teases out their resonances: he expands as much as he telescopes, and he is not shy about introducing ideas and imagery of his own.

""The Oresteia by Rob Hardy offered its audience a heady bouquet of new wine drawn from an old wineskin.... [It] has pared down the Oresteia to a manageable two-hour performance.... [and] offers a stripped-down style in which every word counts and immediacy trumps Aeschylean grandeur. Classicists may miss some of their favorite Aeschylean motifs; in the Watchman's speech, for example, there is no 'resting on my elbows like a dog' or 'a woman's hopeful heart, which plans like a man.' At the same time, Hardy has succeeded in producing a script that is evocative and unhurried. Like that of Ted Hughes before him, Hardy's script lingers on his favorite Aeschylean images and teases out their resonances: he expands as much as he telescopes, and he is not shy about introducing ideas and imagery of his own.""

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