Abstract
Electra was Hugo von Hofmannsthal's first major success on the public stage. The play was first perfonned at Max Reinhardt 's Little Theatre in Berlin on October 30, 1903. On November 10, Hofmannsthal wrote to his brother-in-law that it had had a great success with three editions out of print, twenty-two adoptions by public stages, and a noisy reception from the press, partly enthusiastic, partly hostile. Electra kept its place in the repertoire. Some years later, Hofmannsthal authorized a Japanese club to perfonn it in Japanese and casually referred to perfonnances of his play on "hundreds of stages" (Briefe, II, 385). Today, Electra survives chiefly in acut and slightly altered fonn as the libretto of Strauss's opera.
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