Electra

Sometimes there are advantages to being thought, "dead."

As I was more interested in just getting the story, I had no problem going cheap and picking up the Dover Thrift Edition of Electra. While it clearly is not the same type of lovingly arranged translations that Penguin Classics offer, it is definitely sufficient.However, I will say that if you have an income and are more interested in the context of the plays (always a plus), I would recommend going with the Penguin Classics edition. If you are presently hammered by the economy and want to break up the time spent looking for worthwhile employment with material you should have read in school, then the Dover Thrift Edition will do.Sophocles was an immensely talented writer, but the older (presumably free use) translations that Dover uses deprives the reader of the common, everyday language that was used...Sophocles was not using antiquated language for his audiences, and it is best to not think of it that way.

Very poor translation. Had to get another versiom

This is a powerful tale of revenge, more sure and purposeful than Hamlet. There is moral ambiguity, as brother and sister take the high road and kill their mother.

Few of us will have the tragedies and complications of Electra's life. This play gives her story.

It's a great Greek play about strength, revenge. This edition is clear. I rather see the actual play than read it. It's overall good. Of you like Greek plays then read this.

In this play, Electra, the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, awaits the return of her brother Orestes so that he can avenge the murder of their father. I think that many scholars have tended to misread this play. It is a play about Electra, not about Orestes or Clytemnestra or Aegisthus. And, it is a tragedy. Should one allow hatred to rule their own lives to such an extent as seen in Electra, even when one is in the right? A number of scholars regard this play as inferior to Aeschylus discussion of the same events.