The recent and sadly brief visit of Peter Stein’s wonderful Electra with the National Theater of Greece was a joy The recent and sadly brief visit of Peter Stein’s wonderful Electra with the National ...

In a 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 ...

Sophocles is difficult. Unlike Euripides, whose dramas seem so modern, so sarcastic, Sophocles' plays rely on complex philosophical explorations more than action. You can have your catharsis, but ...

Two great tragedies and one rollicking farce are in 'Sophocles - Three Plays'. For readers who love dramatic literature, Antigone and Electra, translated for the stage and performed Off Broadway, will ...

Of the more than one hundred plays Sophocles wrote over the course of his long life, only seven survive. This volume collects four of them, all newly translated. Electra portrays the grief of a young ...

At best, it’s a vague insight into the dramatist’s furious, uncompromising antihero who’s “isolated” from conventional high society (represented here by Vogue fashionistas glued to cellphones, rather ...