The play itself is a tragedy with a 'happy' ending. And the two introductions, one by Shaw and the other by Carson, pick apart the play and it's structure, revealing a lot more of what is there.

Anne Carson's translation was excellent and brought alive the tension in Electra's language in the first key first parts of this play. 405 bce translation 2001 (Anne's introduction comes from a 1993 lecture) format: 130 page Oxford University Press paperback acquired: borrowed from my library read: Aug 11-15 rating: 4 starsJust another Greek Tragedy, but this was different in presentation. Electra by Sophocles, translated by Anne Carson- introduction and notes by Michael Shaw- editors’ forward by Peter Burian and Alan Shapiro first performed: c. He published and befriended many of the leading writers of his time, including Daniel Defoe, Sarah Fielding, and Samuel Johnson. Throughout the remainder of his career, he published two more epistolary novels-Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady (1748) and The History of Sir Charles Grandison (1753)-while continuing his work as a prominent and successful printer. During this time, Richardson turned to fiction, publishing his first novel, Pamela or, Virtue Rewarded in 1740, a work now considered the first modern novel. Devastated, Richardson eventually remarried and focused on his career, earning a contract with the House of Commons in 1733 and hiring several apprentices to assist him at his shop. Having married in 1721, Richardson and his wife Martha Wilde suffered the loss of several sons before Martha succumbed to illness in 1732. He established his own shop in 1719 and received his first major contract in 1723, printing a bi-weekly Jacobite newspaper which was soon censored. Born the son of a carpenter, Richardson received a limited education before becoming a printer’s apprentice. Samuel Richardson (1689-1761) was an English writer and printer.

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