Electra

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Description: Electra, Elektra, or The Electra) is a Greek tragedy by Sophocles. Its date is not known, but various stylistic similarities with the Philoctetes (409 BC) and the Oedipus at Colonus (401 BC) lead scholars to suppose that it was written towards the end of Sophocles' career. Jebb dates it between 420 BC and 414 BC. Set in the city of Argos a few years after the Trojan War, the play tells of a bitter struggle for justice by Electra and her brother Orestes for the murder of their father Agamemnon by Clytemnestra and their stepfather Aegisthus. ... (more)

Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
Release date: 19 April 2001
ISBN-10 : 0195049608 | ISBN-13: 9780195049602

Tags: Drama (1), Revenge (1), Tragedy (1), Poetry (1), Theatre (1), Royalty (1), Greek Tragedy (1)

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