Orestes

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Although there's nothing new about a playwright using the works of recent or ancient predecessors as source material with which liberties can be taken -- Shakespeare was certainly one of the great purloiners -- it could be that our era is the first in which classical plays are considered no more than raw material to be treated every and any which way. The underlying motivation for what is sometimes called "deconstruction" may be honorable, based on a dramatist's notion that, were his precursor writing today, this is how he might have written his play. Or the impetus may emanate from a darker pocket of the contemporary psyche: a dramatist working now, when the potential for genuine tragedy se[...]