Robert J. Andreach (essay date summer 1995)
SOURCE: Andreach, Robert J. “Unredeemed Savagery in The Orphan: David Rabe's Contemporary Oresteia.” Classical and Modern Literature: A Quarterly 15, no. 4 (summer 1995): 329-44.
[In the following essay, Andreach discusses The Orphan as a modern dramatization of Aeschylus's Oresteia trilogy.]
While composing an afterword for the 1993 publication of his four Vietnam plays spawned by the war, David Rabe discovered the past to be alive. “Vietnam,” he writes, “rises...
Source: Contemporary Literary Criticism, ©2005 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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