Electra: Full Text and Introduction

Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price A tragic tale of duty, retribution and fate. King Agamemnon, on returning from the Trojan Wars, is murdered by his wife, Clytemnestra, and her lover. Now, to avenge the crime, their daughter Electra must commit one even worse and face the inevitable consequences. This edition of Sophocles' play Electra, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series, is translated and introduced by Marianne McDonald and J. Michael Walton.

© 2019 Nick Hern Books (Ebook): 9781788502382

Translators: Marianne McDonald, J. Michael Walton

Release date

Ebook: 24 October 2019