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Updated: June 12, 2025
"I'm going to look at it from this new point of sight," was his sole comment as he went away. Three hours afterward he appeared to Sylvia as she sat sewing alone, and startled her with the mysterious announcement. "I've done it!" "Done what? Have you burnt poor Clytemnestra?" "Hang Clytemnestra! I'll begin at the beginning and prepare you for the grand finale.
And Clytemnestra was killed by Orestes, her son, in atonement for the death of Agamemnon.
The former killed Thyestes' son, invited the father to a banquet and served up his own son's body for him to eat. The sons of Atreus were Agamemnon and Menelaus, who married respectively Clytemnestra and Helen, daughters of Zeus and Leda, both evil women; the son of Thyestes was Aegisthus, a deadly foe of his cousins who had banished him.
In slaying Clytemnestra, wicked as she was, he had murdered his own mother, a deed hateful to gods and men. Day and night he was haunted by the Furies. These dread sisters never leave Hades save to pursue and torture some guilty conscience.
His writings, usually appearing under the pseudonym of "Owen Meredith," include Clytemnestra , The Wanderer , Lucile , Chronicles and Characters , Orval, or the Fool of Time , Fables in Song , and King Poppy . As Viceroy of India he introduced important reforms, and his dispatches were remarkable for their fine literary form.
The reader will conceive the lamentations of Electra and the fearful joy of Clytemnestra at a narrative by which the one appears to lose a brother and a friend the other a son and an avenging foe.
You know all about the other shows; they had not even the charm which moderate shows commonly have. The ostentation with which they were furnished forth took away all their gayety. What charm is there in having six hundred mules in the Clytemnestra or three thousand supernumeraries in the Trojan Horse, or cavalry and infantry in foreign equipment in some battle-piece.
He may not indeed destroy the framework of the received legends the fact, for instance, that Clytemnestra was slain by Orestes and Eriphyle by Alcmaeon but he ought to show invention of his own, and skilfully handle the traditional material. Let us explain more clearly what is meant by skilful handling.
If, for instance, we examine the address of Clytemnestra to Agamemnon on his return, or the description of the seven Argive chiefs, by the principles of dramatic writing, we shall instantly condemn them as monstrous. But if we forget the characters, and think only of the poetry, we shall admit that it has never been surpassed in energy and magnificence.
Then, with a last appeal to the avenger that is to come, she enters the palace alone to meet her death. The stage is empty. Suddenly a cry is heard from within; again, and then again; while the chorus hesitate the deed is done; the doors are thrown open, and Clytemnestra is seen standing over the corpses of her victims.
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