num_pages: 162
description: A three-part reworking of themes from Greek tragedy, the plays are set in New England in 1865, just after the Civil War. A returning victor, General Ezra Mannon (Agamemnon), is poisoned by his unfaithful wife Christine (Clytemnestra) and then avenged by his son Orin (Orestes) and daughter (Lavinia). With Orin's subsequent suicide, Lavinia (the Electra of the title) becomes a fatalistic recluse in the Mannon mansion.
language: English
title: Mourning Becomes Electra
titlecomplete: Mourning Becomes Electra
genres: Theatre, Drama, Classics, American, Plays, Nobel Prize, 20th Century, Literature, Mythology, Fiction
ratings_count: 4812
publisher: Nick Hern Books