A biography of the 18th century British textual editor Lewis Theobold that asserts that the basic principles of critical editing in English were derived from Theobold's adaptation of the method employed by Bentley in the classics.

This classic of Greek tragedy revolves around Electra and her brother Orestes, who together take revenge on their mother Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus, for the murder of their father Agamemnon.