Mourning Becomes Electra
$36.76
- Paperback
180 pages
- Release Date
14 May 1992
Summary
Eugene O’Neill’s Mourning Becomes Electra is a trilogy of full-length plays, reworking themes from Greek tragedy, particularly The Oresteia of Aeschylus, relocated to New England in 1865, just after the end of the American Civil War.
Lavinia Mannon (Electra) dotes on her father Ezra (Agamemnon), who has just returned victorious from the war, and despises her mother Christine (Clytemnestra) – especially since Catherine has been making a cuckold of Ezra with Lavinia’s…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781854591388 |
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| ISBN-10: | 185459138X |
| Author: | Eugene O'Neill |
| Publisher: | Nick Hern Books |
| Imprint: | Nick Hern Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 180 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 14 May 1992 |
| Weight: | 212g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 127mm x 14mm |
| Series: | The O'Neill Collection |
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About The Author
Eugene O'Neill
Eugene O’Neill (1888-1953) was an American dramatist and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936. His plays include: Anna Christie (1922), Strange Interlude (1928), Ah! Wilderness (1933), The Iceman Cometh (1946) and Long Day’s Journey into Night (produced posthumously 1956).
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