Word: electra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...twentieth century revival of classicism Miss Margaret Anglin will appear in Sophocles' well known play. "Electra" in atmosphere much like that which characterized Sophocles' productions during his lifetime. The play will be given in the open all in Providence, R. I, on June 26 and 27. In the Roger Williams Park...
...Sophocles: Electra," Professor Gulick, Sever...
...incredibly incomprehensible piece blends music and dubious drama in an expose of what the smart set do at Palm Beach. The most credible thing about it is the rumor that it was produced by the sons of the author, Mrs. Sarah Ellis Hyman, as a tribute to their mother. Electra. Actress Margaret Anglin lately received a gold medal for having "kept her work characteristically pure and noble in nature" (TIME, April 4). Last week she played the part of a Greek woman, Electra who, to avenge her father's death, spurs her brother on to slay their adulterous, murderous mother...
...approaching New York production of Sophocles' "Electra", which is to take place on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House on May 3, and 4, recalls memories of the first time a Greek tragedy was played on an American stage, when in 1881 Harvard undergraduates produced Sophocles' "Oedipus...
Some of Professor Murray's works are his translations of the plays of Euripides from the Greek into English poetical form. Beginning with the "Bac- chac" and "Electra", he completed nearly all of the existing plays by the Greek dramatist, and the verse translations were acted at the Court Theatre in London from 1902 to 1907. Other important books by the English classicist are his translations of Aeschylus and Aristophanes, "Hamlet and Orestes" in 1914, and "Euripides...