Book description
Set in New England just after the end of the Civil War, Mourning
Becomes Electra is O'Neill's three part reworking of themes from
Greek tragedy.
This adaptation of Aeschylus' Oresteia by one of America's
greatest playwrights is a landmark in the history of theatre.
Eugene O'Neill was born in New York City in 1888 and died in Boston
in 1953. One of America's greatest playwrights, he was three times
awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and won the Nobel Prize for
Literature in 1936.
