Theatre of Dionysus in Athens

Sophocles' Electra

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Laurel Bowman, 'Klytaimnestra's Dream: Prophecy in Sophocles' Elektra,' Phoenix 51 no. 2 (1997) 131-151.

Dale A. Grote, 'Electra or Chysothemis: The Assignment of Sophocles' Electra 428-30,' Classical Journal, Vol. 86 No. 2(1991) 139-43.

Diane M. Juffras, 'Sophocles' Electra 973-85 and Tyrannicide,' Transactions of the American Philological Association, Vol. 121, (1991), 99-108.

Rachel Kitzinger, 'Why Mourning Becomes Electra,' Classical Antiquity, Vol. 10, no. 2 (October, 1991) 298-327.

André Lardinois and Laura McClure, Making Silence Speak. Women's Voices in Greek Literature and Society, Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press (2001).

Laura McClure, Spoken Like a Woman: Speech and Gender in Athenian Drama, Princeton: Princeton University Press (1999).

Mark Ringer, Electra and the Empty Urn. Metatheater and Role Playing in Sophocles. London & Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.

Richard Seaford, 'The Destruction of Limits in Sophokles' Elektra,' Classical Quarterly, Vol. 35, No. 2 (1985) 315-23.

Charles P. Segal, 'Tragedy, Corporeality, and the Texture of Language: Matricide in the Three Electra Plays,' Classical World, Vol. 79, no. 1 (Sept-Oct, 1985) 7-23.

Craig S. Smith, 'The Meanings of Kairos in Sophocles' Electra,' Classical Journal, Vol. 85, no. 4 (Apr-May, 1990) 341-43.

Christina Elliott Sorum, 'The Family in Sophocles' Antigone and Electra,' Classical World, Vol. 75, no. 4 (Mar-Apr, 1982) 201-211.

Wiersma, S., 'Women in Sophocles,' Mnemosyne, 4th Ser., Vol. 37 (1984) 25-55.