Mourning Becomes Electra | "More Shakespeare and Less Aeschylus in Eugene O'Neill 's Mourning Becomes Electra"
In the following essay, Frenz and Mueller argue that Hamlet and Mourning Becomes Electra "show similarities in plot wherever there are plot differences between Hamlet and the Oresteia’’
There has been general critical agreement that Mourning Becomes Electra was modeled on the Oresteia, and the publication of O'Neill's work diary has strengthened this assumption. On closer investigation, however, the similarities between the two plays...
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