Mourning Becomes Electra

Mourning Becomes Electra (Homecoming; The Hunted; The Haunted)

    Author: Eugene O'Neill

    First Performance: 1931, New York

    Published: 1932

    Genre: (1) Trag. in 4 acts; (2) Trag. in 5 acts; (3) Trag. in 4 acts

    Setting: Mannons' home in New England and a clipper ship, 1865–6

    Cast: (1) 5m, 5f; (2) 7m, 5f; (3) 7m, 2f

    (1) Homecoming. The rumoured end of the American Civil War means that General Ezra Mannon and his son Orin will be returning home. In their absence, his striking foreign-born wife Christine has taken a lover, Adam Brant, a sea captain who is supposedly courting the Mannons' daughter Lavinia. Lavinia discovers that Brant is Mannon's nephew, whose lowborn wife Mannon let starve to death after his brother had died. She suspects Brant of taking revenge on her father by seducing her mother. When...

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