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Lesia Ukrainka (Larysa Petrivna Kosach) was a Ukrainian writer, translator, and cultural activist. She wrote in the genres of poetry, lyrics, epic, drama, prose, and journalism. She also worked in the field of folklore (220 folk melodies were recorded with her voice).

The first mention of the drama Cassandra is found in the poetess's letter to Olha Kobylianska from San Remo dated 14.11.1903. In it, Lesya Ukrainka explained that she chose the highborn woman as the heroine of her new work because "this tragic prophetess, with her unacknowledged Truth, with her useless prophetic talent, is actually such a restless and passionate type: She foresees disaster and predicts it, and no one believes her, because although she tells the truth, she does not tell it in the way people need; she knows that no one will believe her, but she does not know how to say it otherwise.

Lesia Ukrainka's Cassandra is written in a deeper and more comprehensive way than Aeschylus'. The heroine has the feelings of an ordinary person: she doubts and hesitates, seeks to find the truth, suffers and submits to her fate.

Lesia Ukrainka wrote the drama during 1903 and 1907.