"Which 20th century playwright wrote ""Mourning Becomes Electra"" and ""Long Day's Journey Into Night"","
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 Electra becomes Lavinia, Aegisthus becomes Adam Brant, etc. As a Greek tragedy made modern, the play features murder, adultery, incestuous love and revenge, and even a group of townspeople who function as a kind of Greek chorus. Though fate alone guides characters' actions in Greek tragedies, O'Neill's characters have motivations grounded in 1930s-era psychological theory as well. The play can easily be read from a Freudian perspective, paying attention to various characters' Oedipus complexes and Electra complexes. "Mourning Becomes Electra" is divided into three plays with themes that correspond to the "Oresteia" trilogy. Much like Aeschylus' plays "Agamemnon", "The Libation