The Triumph of Clytemnestra

William Makepeace Thackeray

Wood engraving

c.1861

Illustration for Chapter 51, Thackeray's Vanity Fair

"The performers were called by the whole house, which sounded with cries of "Manager! Clytemnestra!" AGAMEMNON could not be got to show in his classical tunic, but stood in the background with Ægisthus and others of the performers of the little play."

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