Mourning Becomes Electra

Mourning Becomes Electra Sources and ClassicNote Author

  • O'Neill, Eugene. 3 Plays. New York: Vintage Books, 1958.
  • Henry, Joyce E. 2006. "Mourning Becomes Electra." Magill’S Survey Of American Literature, Revised Edition 1-2. Literary Reference Center, EBSCOhost (login required; accessed January 2, 2018).

  • Nugent, S. Georgia. "Masking Becomes Electra: O'Neill, Freud, and the Feminine." Comparative Drama 22, no. 1 (1988): 37-55.
  • Weiner, Jesse. "O'Neill's "Aeneid": Virgilian Allusion in "Mourning Becomes Electra"." International Journal of the Classical Tradition 20, no. 1/2 (2013): 41-60.

  • Alexander, Doris M. "Psychological Fate in Mourning Becomes Electra." PMLA 68, no. 5 (1953): 923-34.

  • Miller, Lisa. "Iphigenia ¹: An Overlooked Influence in "Mourning Becomes Electra"." The Eugene O'Neill Review 24, no. 1/2 (2000): 101-12.

  • Chirico, Miriam M. "Moving Fate into the Family: Tragedy Redefined in O'Neill's "Mourning Becomes Electra"." The Eugene O'Neill Review 24, no. 1/2 (2000): 81-100.

  • Smith, Susan Harris. "Inscribing the Body: Lavinia Mannon as the Site of Struggle." The Eugene O'Neill Review 19, no. 1/2 (1995): 45-54.

  • Black, Stephen A. ""Mourning Becomes Electra" as a Greek Tragedy." The Eugene O'Neill Review 26 (2004): 166-88.

  • Mark Masterson. "“It’s Queer, It’s like Fate”: Tracking Queer in O’Neill’s Mourning Becomes Electra." Helios 38, no. 2 (2011): 131-147. https://muse.jhu.edu/ (login required; accessed January 4, 2018).

  • "The Historian: Mourning Becomes Electra." 12/31/17. <http://www.eoneill.com/library/contour/historian/electra.htm>.
  • Qureshi, M Tariq. "“Mourning Becomes Electra” – A Tragic Play in Greek Tradition with Freudian and Lacanian Underpinnings." San Francisco Institute for Lacanian Studies. 12/31/18. <The Historian: Mourning Becomes Electra>.
  • Hugh, Bret=nt. "More About "John Brown's Body" ." Digital History. 1/2/18. <http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/active_learning/explorations/brown/music1.cfm>.
  • "About "Shenandoah"." Library of Congress. 1/3/18. <https://www.loc.gov/creativity/hampson/about_shenandoah.html>.
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