Electra - Full Text and Introduction

Sophocles Sophocles

Translator Marianne McDonald, J. Michael Walton

Summary

Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price
A tragic tale of duty, retribution and fate.
King Agamemnon, on returning from the Trojan Wars, is murdered by his wife, Clytemnestra, and her lover. Now, to avenge the crime, their daughter Electra must commit one even worse and face the inevitable consequences.
This edition of Sophocles' play Electra, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series, is translated and introduced by Marianne McDonald and J. Michael Walton.

Available since: 10/31/2019.

Print length: 128 pages.

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