Electra

Name: Electra
Author: Jean Giraudoux

by Jean Giraudoux

Classical reimagining of Sophocles' Electra with modern sensibility

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Jean Giraudoux

French playwright who brought elegant fantasy, classical allusion, and political allegory to the interwar stage. The Trojan War Will Not Take Place (Tiger at the Gates) eerily anticipated World War II. His work occupies a unique position between neoclassicism and modernism.

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