naa a22 4500 51077380X CHVBK 20180411083223.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s12138-013-0321-z doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s12138-013-0321-z Weiner Jesse Department of Modern and Classical Literatures, Illinois Wesleyan University, P.O. Box 2900, 61702-2900, Bloomington, IL, USA aut O'Neill's Aeneid [Elektronische Daten] Virgilian Allusion in Mourning Becomes Electra [Jesse Weiner] With a primary focus on the character of the Chantyman, this essay traces a system of allusion to Virgil's Aeneid in Eugene O'Neill's adaptation of the Oresteia, Mourning Becomes Electra. O'Neill's drunken and enigmatic sailor has no corresponding character in Aeschylus' Oresteia, nor in its subsequent classical iterations. As I show, the Chantyman is explicitly crafted after the mythological Charon, imported from Book 6 of Virgil's Aeneid. Moreover, the use of this epic archetype serves to promote O'Neill's mechanism of predetermined causality, both by means of its thematic implications and structural position within the narrative of Aeneid 6. The allusion recalls the Virgilian unveiling of Aeneas' familial destiny and thereby underscores the broader and inevitable consequences of Brant's death upon the House of Mannon. Ultimately, this intertextual strategy augments O'Neill's self-professed project in this play: to recreate on the modern stage a tragic world order governed by fate, in the conspicuous absence of a divine apparatus. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2013 Virgil nationallicence Eugene O'Neill nationallicence Intertextuality nationallicence Fate nationallicence International Journal of the Classical Tradition Springer Netherlands 20/1-2(2013-06-01), 41-60 1073-0508 20:1-2<41 2013 20 12138 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12138-013-0321-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12138-013-0321-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Weiner Jesse Department of Modern and Classical Literatures, Illinois Wesleyan University, P.O. Box 2900, 61702-2900, Bloomington, IL, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Journal of the Classical Tradition Springer Netherlands 20/1-2(2013-06-01), 41-60 1073-0508 20:1-2<41 2013 20 12138 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer