Rush Rehm is Professor of Drama and Classics at Stanford University, USA, and Artistic Director of Stanford Repertory Theater (https://stanfordreptheater.com/#); he works professionally as an actor and director when possible. He is the author of The Oresteia: A Theatre Version (1978), Greek Tragic Theatre (1992), Marriage to Death: The Conflation of Weddings and Funerals in Greek Tragedy (1994), The Play of Space: Spatial Transformation in Greek Tragedy (2002), Radical Theatre: Greek Tragedy and the Modern World (2003), and Understanding Greek Tragic Theatre (revised edition of Greek Tragic Theatre, 2016).

Introduction
1. Theatrical and Performance Background
2. What Happens and How: The Unfolding of Euripides' Electra
3. Euripides and Myth: Reflecting and Re-Fashioning Tradition
4. Language
5. Characters and Actors
6. Props and Costumes, Bodies and Corpses
7. Gender and Sex, Children and Childbirth
8. Highs and Lows: Class Issues in Electra
9. Gods and Mortals
10. Afterlife
Conclusion
Glossary
Guide to Further Reading
Notes
Bibliography
Index