Mourning Becomes Electra
Eugene O'Neill
  • Published: 1 January 1966
  • ISBN: 9780224610711
  • Imprint: Jonathan Cape
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $36.99
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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.
  • Published: 1 January 1966
  • ISBN: 9780224610711
  • Imprint: Jonathan Cape
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $36.99
Categories:

About the author

Eugene O'Neill

Eugene O'Neil was born in New York 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.

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Praise 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

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

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