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Eugene O’Neill started drafting his ideas for Mourning Becomes Electra as early as 1926, searching for a way to tell a distinctly American story of psychological drama and fate. Not until 1928 did he find his inspiration in the ancient Greek tragic structure of Aeschylus� Oresteia (Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides) - the story of the downfall of the house of Atreus.

But this was not going to be a literal retelling of Electra’s story set against the American Civil War. O’Neill sought to not only investigate her psychology through the character of Lavinia Mannon, but to also