Electra2.0011_ONeillHavinga

T.Bogard's Contour
Perseus site for Aesch. Ag.

Eugene O'Neill, Mourning Becomes Electra, directed by Nick Havinga, thirteen/WNET and Educational Broadcasting, 1978; rereleased Image Entertainment 2001.

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The Havinga production stars Bruce Davison, Orin
Joan Hackett, Christine
Roberta Maxwell, Lavinia

Perhaps the best part of this production is the talking-head lecturing by Classics professor Eric Segal.

running time: 5 hours

DVD cover for "Mourning Becomes Electra" featuring a woman looking through a curtain, with cast and crew credits

Mourning Questions: a listing of several dozen study questions, somewhat randomly organized, which could help ClCv241 student gauge their comprehension of the play's plot.

Mourning Notes: RTM's somewhat loosely arranged set of notes and talking points pertaining to O'Neill's masterpiece.

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1400 - 1990's, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University Press.
Address concerns or inquiries to macfarlane@byu.edu.