Married off to a poor farmer so that she can bear no noble avenger, Electra lives in a hut on the borders of Argos, mourning her murdered father Agamemnon. When her brother Orestes returns in secret, she drives him to kill Aegisthus and their mother Clytemnestra, and Euripides makes the reckoning as troubling as it is just.
Euripides’s most unsettling version of the myth, in the translation performed at the Court Theatre in 1907. Download the free EPUB.