Word: clymnestra
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...fairly obvious to first-afternooners that Playwright O'Neill had moved Greece to New England. Those who knew their Euripides were quick to detect a parallel between Mourning Becomes Electra and the classic tragedy, recalled how Agamemnon, returning from the Trojan War, was killed by his wife (Clymnestra), how the long-lost son Orestes finally killed his mother's lover and his mother at the instigation of Elektra...
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