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ix Illustrations 1. Lavinia (Alice Brady), Christine (Alla nazimova), and orin (Philip Foster) in Eugene o’neill’s 1931 Mourning Becomes Electra 16 2. Elektra (Pamela Reed) in Ezra Pound’s Elektra 23 3. Electricidad (Zilah Mendoza) in Luis Alfaro’s Electricidad 24 4. George Riddle as oedipus in Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus 33 5. Point Loma Greek Theater, San Diego, California 39 6. Athena, Apollo, and orestes with the chorus of Furies in Aeschylus’s Eumenides 45 7. The Furies after being persuaded by Athena in Aeschylus’s Eumenides 46 8. Margaret Anglin as Medea in Euripides’ Medea and as Iphigenia in Euripides’ Iphigenia in Aulis 55 9. Margaret Anglin as Sophocles’ Electra 57 10. Margaret Anglin in Sophocles’ Electra 58 11. Four scenes from the souvenir program for the Chicago Little Theatre’s tour of Euripides’ Trojan Women 65 12. Chorus in Euripides’ Trojan Women, choreographed by Margaret Gage 86 13. Chorus in an unidentified Greek tragedy, choreographed by Margaret Gage 87 14. Scene 3 (Herdsman Scene) in Harry Partch’s Revelation in the Courthouse Park 103 15. Polynices (Jamyl Dobson) and Eteocles (Benton Greene) in Will Power’s Seven 106 16. The chorus performs “Wild Women Attack!” in The Rockae 115 x Illustrations 17. Caroline Burlen as Antigone in the Saturday Morning Club of Boston’s Sophocles’ Antigone 128 18. Three chorus members in the Saturday Morning Club of Boston’s Sophocles’ Antigone 129 19. Darius (Ted van Griethuysen) consoles Atossa (Helen Carey) in Ellen McLaughlin’s version of Aeschylus’s Persians 143 20. Waterwell’s Persians, a new version of Aeschylus’s Persians 145 21. Ajax (Shawn Fagan) bones a fish in Ajax: 100% Fun 150 22. oedipus (Kenneth Welsh), Shepherd (oliver Cliff), and guards (Wilberto Rosario and Douglas Hamilton) in Oedipus the King, adapted by Anthony Burgess 163 23. oedipus (John Campion) mistakenly celebrates his apparent release from guilt with Jocasta (Stephanie Roth-Haberle) in Sophocles’ Oedipus 174 24. Teiresias (Jeffrey Baumgartner) in Frank Galati’s Oedipus Complex 182 25. “The Modern Medea” (Margaret Garner) by Thomas Satterwhite noble 197 26. nathaniel McQueston (Walter Abel), oparre (Katharine Cornell), and Faith Ingalls (Ruth Matteson) in Maxwell Anderson’s Wingless Victory 206 ...

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