This Zoom course will be recorded. Much of art, especially playwriting, is antecedent and revisioning. When Aeschylus composed his “Oresteia,” he looked to Homer and the narratives of Troy. Eugene O’Neill tapped into the tragedy of Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, Electra and Orestes when he composed “Mouning Becomes Electra,” revisioning his time and setting to New England after the United States Civil War. Aeschylus’ trilogy expresses the political and moral outlooks of fifth century Athens, while O’Neill’s post-Civil War New England is shaped by the social forces and dramatic traditions of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This course will examine the relationships between these two masterpieces of the drama