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Sophocles - "Electra" (Paperback)
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Sophocles - "Electra" (Paperback)
Series: Duckworth Companions to Greek & Roman Tragedy
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Sophocles' Electra deals with the famous story of Orestes'
vengeance on his mother Clytemnestra for her murder of his father
Agamemnon. This book discusses whether the matricide is a just and
final act of violence, or whether Sophocles ironically implies that
it is more problematic than it seems. Electra is notable among
Sophocles' plays for the prominent part played in it by female
characters, and especially the heroic resistance and suffering of
Orestes' sister Electra. The book pays particular attention to the
portrayal of Electra herself, but also discusses wider issues of
dramatic characterisation and Greek ethics. Sophocles is one of the
greatest masters of the medium in the history of theatre, and the
book explains the formal conventions of Greek tragedy and examines
various aspects of his skill as a dramatist. The book concludes
with an examination of later adaptations of the play, of which the
most important is that by Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1903), a study in
extreme psychology which he adapted to form the libretto for
Richard Strauss's opera Elektra.
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