Euripides: Electra

Rush Rehm is Professor of Theater and Performance Studies and Classics at Stanford University, USA, and Artistic Director of Stanford Repertory Theater. He is the author of The Oresteia: A Theatre Version (1978), Greek Tragic Theatre (1992, revised as Understanding Greek Tragic Theatre, 2016), Marriage to Death: The Conflation of Weddings and Funeral Rituals in Greek Tragedy (1994), The Play of Space: Spatial Transformation in Greek Tragedy (2002), and Radical Theatre: Greek Tragedy and the Modern World (2004). He has worked professionally in the theatre as an actor and director for many years.

• Introduction1. Theatrical and Performance Background2. What Happens and How: The Unfolding of Euripides' Electra3. Euripides and Myth: Reflecting and Re-Fashioning Tradition4. Language5. Characters and Actors6. Props and Costumes, Bodies and Corpses7. Gender and Sex, Children and Childbirth8. Highs and Lows: Class Issues in Electra9. Gods and Mortals10. AfterlifeConclusionGlossaryGuide to Further ReadingNotesBibliographyIndex

Rush Rehm does a fine job of making Euripides’ complicated and unsettling play more appreciable and enjoyable, ... This volume will prove accessible as a study-guide for students who know little of Greek theatre, but also contains plenty of meaty information for their teachers to savour. I recommend this volume not just for students studying the text in translation, but for anyone considering a performance or rehearsed reading of Euripides’ play.