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Mourning Becomes Electra (Paperback, New edition)
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Mourning Becomes Electra (Paperback, New edition)
Series: The O'Neill Collection
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Loot Price R335
Discovery Miles 3 350
You Save R63 (16%)
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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 ex-suitor, Adam. Lavinia's brother
Orin (Orestes), on the other hand, war-wounded and weak, idolises
his mother and resents his overbearing father. When Christine and
her lover poison Ezra, Lavinia convinces her brother that they must
avenge their father's death. But they have spent years soaking in
family conflicts and curses of generations past, and fate will be
sated... Mourning Becomes Electra was premiered on Broadway at the
Guild Theatre in October 1931. This edition of the play includes a
full introduction, biographical sketch and chronology.
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