Electra: A Gender Sensitive Study of the Plays (Aeschylus' Oresteia Through Sam Shepard's Curse of the Starving Class Based on the Myth)

Greek playwrights to modern writers (e.g. O'Neill and Wilde) -- all have used the character Electra to reveal the social structure of society. The myth is also periodically used by literary thinkers to question the established separation of the sexes.