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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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Orestes and Electra, with the help of their
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Then will I speak, and this shall be the prelude of my speech: Ah, mother mine! would thou hadst had a better heart; for though thy beauty and Helen's win you praises well deserved, yet are ye akin in nature, pair of wantons, unworthy of Castor.
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