Electra
By: Sophocles ; translated by Kenneth McLeish
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Subjects: Drama
Description: When the victorious King Agamemnon returns from Troy, carting his new mistress Cassandra in tow, his wife Clytemnestra murders him. This initial act of revenge sparks off a long held grudge, kindled in the exiled and presumed dead Orestes, twin brother of Electra.
Notes: Originally published: in print in Plays two. London: Methuen Drama, 1990.