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Four Electras

Author(s) -

Anthony J. Podlecki

Publication year - 1981

Publication title -

florilegium

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2369-7180

pISSN - 0709-5201

DOI - 10.3138/flor.3.002

Subject(s) - character (mathematics) , virtue , legend , novelty , action (physics) , art , literature , point (geometry) , philosophy , epistemology , mathematics , physics , geometry , theology , quantum mechanics

A comparative analysis of the three Athenian tragedians' versions of the Orestes-legend can hardly claim the virtue of novelty, but to look at them again from a restricted point of view, concentrating on the character of Electra, and especially to include in the examination an unjustly neglected masterpiece of the modern French theatre, Jean Giraudoux's Electre 2 of 1937, will perhaps yield further fruits in this well-trodden field. The four Electras are compared under the following headings: prominence, structure, contribution to the decisive action, relationship to other characters and motivation.

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