Editing Electra (section)

==Adaptations of the Electra story==
[[Image:Electra and Orestes - Project Gutenberg eText 14994.png|thumbnail|upright=1.5|Electra and [[Orestes (mythology)|Orestes]], from an 1897 ''Stories from the Greek Tragedians'', by Alfred Church]]

===Plays===
* The ''[[Oresteia]]'', a trilogy of plays by [[Aeschylus]]
* ''[[Electra (Sophocles)|Electra]]'', play by [[Sophocles]]
* ''[[Electra (Euripides)|Electra]]'', play by [[Euripides]]
* ''[[Orestes (play)|Orestes]]'', play by [[Euripides]]
* ''Electra'', a lost play by [[Quintus Tullius Cicero]] of which nothing is known but the name and that it was "a tragedy in the Greek style"
* ''Electra'' (1901) a play by [[Benito Pérez Galdós]]
* ''[[Elektra (Hofmannsthal play)|Elektra]]'', a 1903 play by [[Hugo von Hofmannsthal]], based on the Sophocles play
* ''[[Mourning Becomes Electra]]'', 1931 play by [[Eugene O'Neill]], based on Aeschylus
* ''[[Electra (Giraudoux play)|Electra]]'', 1937 play by [[Jean Giraudoux]]
* ''[[The Flies]]'', a 1943 play by [[Jean-Paul Sartre]], modernizing the Electra myth by introducing the theme of [[existentialism]]
* ''[[Electra (Pound)|Electra]]'' (started in 1949, first performed 1987), a play by [[Ezra Pound]] and Rudd Fleming
* ''Electra, or The dropping of the masks'' (1954) a play by [[Marguerite Yourcenar]]
* ''Electra'' and ''Orestes'', plays by [[Adrienne Kennedy]], 1972
* ''Electra'' (1974) a play by Robert Montgomery, directed by [[Joseph Chaikin]]
* ''[[Electra (Kišs)|Electra]]'', 1995 drama by [[Danilo Kiš]]
* ''[[Electricidad (play)|Electricidad]]'', 2004 play by [[Luis Alfaro]], modern adaptation of Electra based in the Chicano barrio
* ''Electra/Orestes'', 2015 play by Jada Alberts and [[Anne-Louise Sarks]]
* ''Small and Tired,'' 2017 play by Kit Brookman
* ''Pitribhumi'', 2021 play by Sandarbha
* ''Electra'', 2021 play by Tadashi Suzuki

===Opera===
* ''[[Elektra (opera)|Elektra]]'', by [[Richard Strauss]], with libretto by [[Hugo von Hofmannsthal]], based on his own play
* ''[[Electra (Theodorakis)|Electra]]'', by [[Mikis Theodorakis]]
* ''[[Mourning Becomes Electra]]'', by Marvin David Levy, based on [[Eugene O'Neill]]'s play
* ''[[Idomeneo]]'', by [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]], where she plays the role of rejected lover/villain
* ''Electra'', opera by [[Johann Christian Friedrich Haeffner]], Libretto by [[Adolf Fredrik Ristell]] after [[Nicolas Francois Guillard]]
* ''[[Électre]]'', [[tragédie lyrique]] by [[Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne]], set to a libretto by [[Nicolas-François Guillard]]

===Films===
* ''[[Electra (1962 film)|Electra]]'', a film by [[Michael Cacoyannis]], starring [[Irene Papas]], based on Euripides
* ''[[Mourning Becomes Electra (film)]]'', a film by [[Dudley Nichols]], starring [[Rosalind Russell]] and [[Michael Redgrave]]
* ''[[The Forgotten Pistolero]]'', a [[Spaghetti Western]] by [[Ferdinando Baldi]] starring [[Leonard Mann (actor)|Leonard Mann]] and [[Luciana Paluzzi]]
* ''[[Ellie (1984 film)|Ellie]]'', a film which transfers the story to a Southern U.S. locale
* ''[[Szerelmem, Elektra]]'' (Elektra, My Love), film by [[Miklós Jancsó]], starring [[Mari Törőcsik]]
* ''[[Filha da Mãe]]'' and ''[[Mal Nascida]]'', both by Portuguese film director [[João Canijo]]
* ''[[elektraZenSuite]]'', medium-length film by [[Alessandro Brucini]], based on texts by Aeschylus, Sophocles, William Shakespeare, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Sylvia Plath, and the Zen Buddhist monk Takuan Soho
* ''[[Elektra (2010 film)|Electra]]'', film by [[Shyamaprasad]], starring [[Nayanthara]], [[Skanda Ashok]], [[Manisha Koirala]] and [[Prakash Raj]], based on Euripides

===Literature===
* Elektra (Laodice) is the unnamed protagonist and speaker in [[Yannis Ritsos]]'s long poem ''Beneath the Shadow of the Mountain''. This poem forms part of the cycle colloquially referred to as the ''New Oresteia''.
* Electra is the eponymous narrator of her story in the book 'Electra' by [[Henry Treece]]. (Bodley Head, 1963: Sphere Books., 1968).
* ''Electra on [[Azalea]] Path'' is the title of [[Sylvia Plath]]'s poem published in 1959, in reference to the [[Electra Complex]]
* A central character in [[Donna Leon]]'s [[crime fiction]] series is a present-day young woman named Elettra (the Italian form of "Electra"), who is highly resourceful and who bears some resemblance to the mythological character.
* ''House of Names'', by [[Colm Tóibín]]. A retelling of the story of Agamemnon's death and the resulting events. (Simon and Schuster, May 9, 2017. 275 pages<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=znXGDgAAQBAJ|title = House of Names: A Novel|isbn = 9781501140211|last1 = Toibin|first1 = Colm|date = 9 May 2017| publisher=Simon and Schuster }}</ref>)
* '' Elektra, ''a novel by [[Jennifer Saint]] that tells the parallel story of Elektra's life, along with her mother Clytemnestra, and Cassandra of Troy