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Eugene O'Neill, Mourning Becomes Electra, a dramatic trilogy that overtly reworks themes and structures of Aeschylus' Oresteia — Agamemon = Homecoming, Choephori = The Hunted, Eumenides = The Haunted — premiered 26 Oct 1931, Guild Theatre, New York City.

Reid's listing for sources:

Oxford Companion to American Literature, s.v. O'Neill: pdf

T. Bogard, Contour in Time: the plays of Eugene O'Neill (OUP 1972): 347f, 350- 353, 468. [entire book at eoneill.com; see link above] — emphasis on O'Neill's preoccupation with cfafting 'modern psychological play — fate springing out of family' (EO'N diary March 1930 cited by T.B.)

K. Hamburger, From Sophocles to Sartre (NY, 1969): 61ff. pdf

C.C. Long, The Role of Nemesis in the Structure of Slct'd Plays by Eugene O'Neill (Paris and The Hague, 1968): 132-74

R. Stamm, "The Orestes Theme in Three Plays by Eugene O'Neill, T.S. Eliot, and Jean Paul Sartre," English Studies 30 (1949): 244 -46 pdf

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O'Neill himself on Freudian critique: "I find fault with critics (who) read too damn much Freud into stuff that could very well have been written exactly as is before psychoanalysis was ever heard of." (EO'N quoted in Bogard, fn 4.)

Bogard: viz. Fate, Apollo substituted by Freud?