Orestes in Modern Drama: "Mourning Becomes Electra"
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 03:21:57
Category: / Literature / North American
Length: 9 pages (2363 words)
Category: / Literature / North American
Length: 9 pages (2363 words)
"I'm always acutely aware of the Force behind - (Fate,
God, our biological past creating our present, whatever one
calls it - Mystery certainly) - and the eternal tragedy of Man
in his glorious, self-destructive struggle to make the Force
express him instead of being, as an animal is, an incident
in its expression. . . . This is the only subject worth writing
about and . . . it is possible - or can be - to develop a tragic
…
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…in this modern retelling of a Greek legend.
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1.<Tab/>Aeschilus, Orestia, Bucuresti, 1979
2.<Tab/>Carpenter, Frederic, Eugene O'Neill, New York, 1964
3.<Tab/>Comarnescu, Petru, O'Neill si renasterea tragediei, Cluj, 1986
4.<Tab/>Gelb, Arthur and Barbara, O'Neill, New York, 1965
5.<Tab/>O'Neill, Eugene, Teatru, v.I, Bucuresti, 1968
6.<Tab/>Steiner, George, The Death of Tragedy, Londra
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