Electra, Medea, and Antigone in Caribbean Theater: Virgilio Pinera, Jose Triana, and Luis Rafael Sanchez

Abstract

This lecture will examine the feminine myths of classical Greek theater as they were appropriated in Caribbean theater of the mid-20 \u27 century and their relationship with other works of contemporary theater: Electra Garrig6 (1948) and the relationship between Virgilio Pinera\u27s work and that of Eugene O\u27Neill; Medea en espejo (1960), by Jose Triana, and its double reference to Grillparzer\u27s Medea and Unamuno\u27s Medea; and finally La pasion segun Antigono Perez (1 968), by the Puerto Rican playwright Luis Rafael Sanchez, and the European revisions of the myth of Antigone, such as those of Anouilh and Brecht.https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/cri_events/1408/thumbnail.jp

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