Mourning Becomes Electra

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'Eugene O'Neill's wildly Freudian, wildly personal epic is rich with the excess only genius is rich enough to produce' - Washington Post 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.

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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 *

Author Bio

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.