JANET LEMBKE   


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Plays by Janet Lembke

JANET LEMBKE
Electra
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
Oxford University Press 1994
ISBN
978-0195085761
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Genre:
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Translation
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Euripides. Janet Lembke (Translator), Kenneth J. Reckford (Translator)
Electra
This vital translation of Euripides' Electra recreates the prize-winning excitement of the original play. Electra, obsessed by dreams of avenging her father's murder, impatiently awaits the return of her exiled brother Orestes. When he arrives, the play mounts toward its first climax, a tender recognition scene. From that moment on, Electra uses Orestes as her instrument of vengeance. They kill their mother's husband, then their mother herself--and only afterward see the evil inherent in these seemingly just acts. But in his usual fashion, Euripides has imbued myth with the reality of human experience, counterposing suspense and horror with comic realism and down-to-earth comments on life.
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JANET LEMBKE
Hecuba
1st Produced:
Pearl Theatre, NY
2006
Company:
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1st Published:
Oxford University Press Inc, USA (1 April 1991)
ISBN
978-0195042511
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male
6
Female
6
Parts Other:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Euripides. Translated by Janet Lembke and Kenneth J Reckford
Hecuba
This tragedy is a portrait of the defeated Queen of Troy, who transforms from grieving mother to cruel avenger to monster in the course of the play. The press release says, "Her fortitude in defeat is contrasted with the machinations of the victorious Greeks, and it is the Eastern monarchy, not the Western democracy, that draws our admiration and pity."
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