Electra
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781854597564 (1854597566)
Publish date: September 1st 2004
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
Pages no: 128
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Classics,
Literature,
Cultural,
Plays,
Drama,
Theatre,
Poetry,
Greece,
Ancient,
Tragedy,
Mythology
It is interesting reading Electra where the subject matter was also treated by Aeschylus and Euripides. I haven't read Euripides treatment, but I think I preferred Aeschylus treatment, because his way of writing is so overwrought and it suits the subject matter better. None the less Sophocles trea...
"she is herself, in relation to others. She seems hardly to exist as a person except as a combination of reactions to others' deeds and words. Her father's death, her mother's enmity, her sister's passiveness, her brother's delay, Aegisthus' tyranny - these are her life. She says again and again tha...
This is probably not my favourite Sophoclean play, but then again after reading the [book:Ajax] and discovering that Ajax demonstrates the classic symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), it is very hard to then jump into another play that pretty much has nothing to do with combat trauma. ...
More fun to act than to read, I think, but obviously, many people feel otherwise.
13 years ago
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