"Whose written works include ""Strange Interlude"" and ""Mourning Becomes Electra?"
Mourning Becomes Electra Mourning Becomes Electra Mourning Becomes Electra is a play cycle written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill. The play premiered on Broadway at the Guild Theatre on 26 October 1931 where it ran for 150 performances before closing in March 1932. In May 1932, it was revived at the Alvin Theatre (now the Neil Simon Theatre), and in 1972 at the Circle in the Square Theatre. The story is a retelling of the "Oresteia" by Aeschylus. The characters parallel characters from the ancient Greek play. For example, Agamemnon from the "Oresteia" becomes General Ezra Mannon. Clytemnestra becomes Christine, Orestes becomes Orin,
Mourning Becomes Electra actions and the suffering of the protagonist in the present. For this theme, some observers note that O'Neill's approach is more similar to William Shakespeare's outlook in Hamlet than Aeschylus' in Oresteia. O'Neill also differed with Aeschylus on the theme of fate and the role of the gods in the lives of men. In Oresteia, as was the case in the classical Greek tragedies, the divine is part of the environmental forces that humans cannot control but determine their fate. In O'Neill's interpretation, these forces are eliminated in favor of Freudian and Jungian psychology. Mourning Becomes Electra Mourning Becomes Electra