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- Title
"It's Queer, It's like Fate": Tracking Queer in O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra.
- Authors
MASTERSON, MARK
- Abstract
The article presents a case study of "Mourning Becomes Electra (MBE)," a trilogy written by Eugene O'Neill as a modern performance of classical plays, Oresteia and Oedipus Rex. It focuses on how and why the word "queer" occurs 31 times in the trilogy. It discusses the various meanings attached to the word within the context of the play, and how its repeated presence is generally in reference to manhood that is turned in on itself.
- Subjects
TRILOGIES (Literature); MOURNING Becomes Electra (Play : O'Neill); O'NEILL, Eugene, 1888-1953; HOMOSEXUALITY in the theater; ANCIENT theater
- Publication
Helios, 2011, Vol 38, Issue 2, p131
- ISSN
0160-0923
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.1353/hel.2011.0006