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Mourning Becomes Electra
Eugene O´neill
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Description for Mourning Becomes Electra
Paperback. Set in New England just after the end of the Civil War, Mourning Becomes Electra is O'Neill's three part reworking of themes from Greek tragedy. This adaptation of Aeschylus' Oresteia by one of America's greatest playwrights is a landmark in the history of theatre. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 19. Weight in Grams: 237.
Set in New England just after the end of the Civil War, Mourning Becomes Electra is O'Neill's three part reworking of themes from Greek tragedy. This adaptation of Aeschylus' Oresteia by one of America's greatest playwrights is a landmark in the history of theatre.
Set in New England just after the end of the Civil War, Mourning Becomes Electra is O'Neill's three part reworking of themes from Greek tragedy. This adaptation of Aeschylus' Oresteia by one of America's greatest playwrights is a landmark in the history of theatre.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1966
Condition
New
Weight
240 g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780224610711
SKU
V9780224610711
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99-1
About Eugene O´neill
Eugene O'Neill was born in New York City in 1888 and died in Boston in 1953. One of America's greatest playwrights, he was three times awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936.
Reviews for Mourning Becomes Electra
Historically important... Theater of great scope and grand design
New York Times
The full range of the human and the divine is called into play
Independent
There is a manifest integrity about his work, a ruthless self-exposure, and a determination to venture into territory where few dramatists dare to tread
Daily Telegraph
In this take on Aeschylus' The Oresteia, O'Neill substitutes the New England House of Mannon for the House of Atreus and concocts a typically over-the-top cocktail of sex, envy, adultery, matricide and inescapable guilt
Chicago Tribune
New York Times
The full range of the human and the divine is called into play
Independent
There is a manifest integrity about his work, a ruthless self-exposure, and a determination to venture into territory where few dramatists dare to tread
Daily Telegraph
In this take on Aeschylus' The Oresteia, O'Neill substitutes the New England House of Mannon for the House of Atreus and concocts a typically over-the-top cocktail of sex, envy, adultery, matricide and inescapable guilt
Chicago Tribune