Performing Grief
Electra is Greek tragedy’s mourner par excellence. In Sophocles’ dramatic version she is portrayed as stuck in a state of never-ending grief that fuels her desire for vengeance. On the modern stage she captures audiences’ imagination with her powerful, multi-sensory spectacle of mourning. Electra is...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | deu |
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Universität Potsdam
2019-12-01
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| Series: | thersites. Journal for Transcultural Presences & Diachronic Identities from Antiquity to Date |
| Online Access: | https://www.thersites-journal.de/index.php/thr/article/view/131 |