Electra: A Gender Sensitive Study of the Plays (Aeschylus' Oresteia Through Sam Shepard's Curse of the Starving Class Based on the Myth)

By Batya Casper Laks

Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides all used the character Electra to reveal the social structure of ancient Greece. Shakespeare exploited elements of the Electra myth in Hamlet, and modern playwrights such as Wilde, O'Neill and Sarte have revitalized the story to dissect modern society. The Electra myth is periodically used by literary thinkers to question the male-dominated society, reexamining the established political and psychological separation of men and women.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 089950924X
• ISBN13: 9780899509242
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: McFarland Publishing
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"