Sophocles 
Electra 
Full Text and Introduction

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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 Mc Donald and J. Michael Walton.

Tentang Penulis

J. Michael Walton is the author of several books including: Translating Classical Plays: Collected Papers (2016); The Greek Sense of Theatre: Tragedy Reviewed (1984); Euripides Our Contemporary (2009); The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Theatre (ed. with Marianne Mc Donald, 2007) and Found in Translation: Greek Drama in English (2006).