Week no 6

Introduction:

Eugene O'Neill: The dramatist and the novelist

  1. Major aspects as a dramatist
  2. Overview of major works and important themes

Mourning Becomes Electra, trilogy of plays by Eugene O' Neill, produced and published in 1931. The trilogy, consisting of Homecoming (four acts), The Hunted (five acts), and The Haunted (four acts), was modeled on the Oresteia  trilogy of  Aeschylus  and represents O’Neill’s most complete use of Greek forms, themes, and characters. O’Neill set his trilogy in the New England of the American Civil War period. For this semester , only "Homecoming" will be studied in class.

Act I (reading and analysis)

Note : Pages 142-158 from " A companion to twentieth-century American drama" will be discussed. This book has already been uploaded.