Orestes in Modern Drama: "Mourning Becomes Electra"

"I'm always acutely aware of the Force behind - (Fate, God, our biological past creating our present, whatever one calls it - Mystery certainly) - and the eternal tragedy of Man in his glorious, self-destructive struggle to make the Force express him instead of being, as an animal is, an incident in its expression. . . . This is the only subject worth writing about and . . . it is possible - or can be - to develop a tragic …

…in this modern retelling of a Greek legend. Bibliography: 1.<Tab/>Aeschilus, Orestia, Bucuresti, 1979 2.<Tab/>Carpenter, Frederic, Eugene O'Neill, New York, 1964 3.<Tab/>Comarnescu, Petru, O'Neill si renasterea tragediei, Cluj, 1986 4.<Tab/>Gelb, Arthur and Barbara, O'Neill, New York, 1965 5.<Tab/>O'Neill, Eugene, Teatru, v.I, Bucuresti, 1968 6.<Tab/>Steiner, George, The Death of Tragedy, Londra