Electra : a gender sensitive study of the plays based on the myth /

"Shakespeare's Hamlet follows a narrative pattern similar to that of the Greek Electra myth. We see signs of Electra's influence again in 20th-century works. This revised edition looks at the influence of Electra on popular culture throughout history and the questions it poses regardi...

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Main Author: Laks, Batya Casper, 1942- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2019]
Edition:Second edition.
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a I. Prehistory. Aeschylus: The Libation Bearers (458 B.C.) -- II. Sophocles: Electra (409 B.C.) -- III. Euripides: Electra (ca. 400 B.C.). Euripides: Orestes (408 B.C.) -- IV. Shakespeare: Hamlet (1601) -- V. Electra: Play of Ambivalence. Oscar Wilde: Salome (1905). Hugo von Hofmannsthal: Electra (1903). Richard Strauss: Elektra (1909). Eugene O'Neill: Mourning Becomes Electra (1931). Jean Giraudoux: Electra (1937). Robinson Jeffers: The Tower Beyond Tragedy (1937) -- VI. Jean-Paul Sartre: Les Mouches (1942). Ezra Pound: Electra (1951). Jack Richardson: The Prodigal (1960). Adrienne Kennedy: Electra and Orestes (1980). Heiner Muller: Hamlet-Machine (1984) -- VII. T.S. Eliot: The Family Reunion (1939). Sam Shepard: Curse of the Starving Class (1978). 
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