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Character
Gender
Female
Playing Age
Late Teen, Young Adult, Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
1
Time & Place
Outside Electra's house, Argolis
Length
Medium
Time Period
Classical
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Youth (Y)/General Audiences (G)
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Context
Orestes has come to Electra’s home disguised as a
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I will tell you, if I may; and surely I may tell a friend about my own and my father's grievous misfortunes. Now since thou movest me to speak, I entreat thee, sir, tell Orestes of our sorrows; first, describe the dress I wear, the load of squalor
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