Electra: A Gender Sensitive Study of the Plays Based on the Myth, 2d ed.

Shakespeare’s Hamlet–written 1,000 years after the classical Greek period–follows a narrative pattern similar to that of the Greek Electra myth, and it isn’t the only story to do so. We see signs of Electra’s influence again in the 20th-century works of Oscar Wilde, Eugene O’Neill and T.S. Eliot, among others.