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Claiming that the playwright "has at last written a straightforward tragedy of major proportions," Skinner offers a positive review of the debut production of O'Neill's play.
Eugene O'Neill has at last written a straightforward tragedy of major proportions. For reasons which I shall try to explain later on, it would be lacking in a true sense of proportion to call it a "great'' tragedy—in spite of the fact that many of its passages are infused with the true greatness of the tragic spirit, and in spite of the further fact that in structure, in sequence and in rhythm, the three plays composing the trilogy, "Mourning Becomes Electra" contain, by all odds, the finest dramatic writing of O'Neill's career.
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- Mourning Becomes Electra: Introduction
- Mourning Becomes Electra: Summary
- Mourning Becomes Electra: Eugene O’Neill Biography
- Mourning Becomes Electra: Themes
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- Mourning Becomes Electra: Historical Context
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Mourning Becomes Electra: Essays and Criticism
- Mourning Becomes Electra and Oresteia
- "The Legacy of Melville's Pierre: Family Relationships in Mourning Becomes Electra"
- "Eugene O'Neill's Paradise Lost: The Theme of the Islands in Mourning Becomes Electra"
- "Mother and Daughter in Mourning Becomes Electra"
- "Insular Typees: Puritanism and Primitivism in Mourning Becomes Electra"
- "More Shakespeare and Less Aeschylus in Eugene O'Neill 's Mourning Becomes Electra"
- "Our Electra"
- 1931 Review of Mourning Becomes Electra
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