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  <title><![CDATA[Mourning Becomes Electra]]></title>
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  <default_description>A three-part reworking of themes from Greek tragedy, the plays are set in New England in 1865, just after the Civil War. A returning victor, General Ezra Mannon (Agamemnon), is poisoned by his unfaithful wife Christine (Clytemnestra) and then avenged by his son Orin (Orestes) and daughter (Lavinia). With Orin's subsequent suicide, Lavinia (the Electra of the title) becomes a fatalistic recluse in the Mannon mansion. The author was four times a Pulitzer Prize winner and was the first American dramatist to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1932</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Eugene O'Neill]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[a little over the top when it comes to symbolism, but this play was excellent.  written with the greek style in mind, but with a nice Southern twist.  i don't think i'd really want to see this performed, but it's wonderful to read. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A family with Oedipus and Electra complexes abounding is doomed to repeat the recurring love/hate relationships which were the foundation of their family.  Each attempts to get from family the kind of love they should get from lovers, and as a result none can build on a healthy foundation that a fam...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54058672">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[okay I am a lover of Eugene O'Neill's works..I had the pleasure of being the stage manager in an off Broadway Production. It's inthe genre of Harper lee,and John Steinbeck such rich writing.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[According to the college professor who assigned this, when translated into Norwegian, the title became &quot;Getting Electricity in the Morning.&quot; :)]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Apr 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[An excellent reworking of Greek tragedy themes.  Poisoned father revenged by son and daughter.  Very well written.]]></body>
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    <review id="47602254">
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    <body><![CDATA[I know I read this in college but I think it deserves a re-read.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Review of a horrible NYC production here: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://flavorwire.com/12457/reasons-for-closing-early-a-mourning-becomes-electra-post-mortem" title="http://flavorwire.com/12457/reasons-for-closing-early-a-mourning-becomes-electra-post-mortem">http://flavorwire.com/12457/reasons-for-...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sick, Oedipal, tragic, pointless, and who in the world is Electra? I decided to read it because it was famous (and wanted to see why) and because it has a cool title. The title is the only cool thing about it. Mourning did not become anyone in this play. It was a bunch of murder, misery, and suicide...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25695549">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It wasn't bad but... from certain point of time, I just can't take things like this with proper seriousness.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Loved this creepy, dark play as a teen. A very sad story that combines the Oedipus complex and Electra complex. Two siblings worship one parent, while detesting the other. The parental and sibling obsessions leads to tragedy.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've actually only read Homecoming from this trilogy, but I liked it. I will probably finish the rest at some point.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[read in high school.  don't really remember it.]]></body>
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    <review id="3744451">
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    <body><![CDATA[The Oresteia done by O'Neill. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[melodramatic!<br/><br/>]]></body>
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