Well, one (totally irrelevant) thing I learned from reading this is that, despite having been in the play Elektra, I only remember ONE LINE, and it wasn’t even mine. This is one of loads of female-perspective retellings that have come out recently – think Circe and Ariadne – and I will read all of them. Peopled by men of myth and popular legend, Clytemnestra tells the tales from the perspective of the woman (the evil, cruel Queen herself) involved.  And she is MAGESTIC. From her […]