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Electra

Electra

$14.99

ISBN: 9781854597496
Author: By Euripides Translated by Marianne McDonald, J. Michael Walton
Publication Date: 30/04/2004
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
Extent: 128pp.
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SKU: BK1608 Categories: Drama, Full-length, Nick Hern Books, Plays, Political / social themes Tag: Nick Hern Books
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Drama Classics: The World’s Great Plays at a Great Little Price

Euripides’ version of the Ancient Greek myth of revenge on a murdering parent.

Electra’s brother Orestes returns to avenge the murder of his father, Agamemnon, by his mother Clytemnestra.

This edition of Electra, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series, is translated and introduced by Marianne McDonald and J. Michael Walton.

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