The tragedies of Sophocles
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The tragedies of Sophocles
（Greece & Rome live）
Bristol Phoenix Press, 2008
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. [124]-129
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book provides separate discussions of each of Sophocles' seven plays: Ajax, Women of Trachis, Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra, Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus. It sets these between an essay that outlines modern approaches to Greek tragedy and a final chapter that spotlights a key moment in the reception of each work. Focusing on the tragedies' dramatic power and the challenges with which they confront an audience, Morwood refuses to confine them within a supposedly Sophoclean template. They are seven unique works, only alike in the fact that they are all major masterpieces.Focusing on the tragedies' dramatic power and the challenges with which they confront an audience, Morwood refuses to confine them within a supposedly Sophoclean template. They are seven unique works, only alike in the fact that they are all major masterpieces.
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Taking bearings
2. 'Ajax'
3. 'Women of Trachis'
4 'Antigone'
5. 'Oedipus the King'
6. 'Electra'
7. 'Philoctetes'
8. 'Oedipus at Colonus'
9. Afterlife
'Ajax': the first Cambridge Greek play
Martin Crimp's 'Cruel and Tender'
Jean Anouilh's 'Antigone'
Pier Paolo Pasolini's 'Edipo Re'
The Strauss / Hofmannsthal 'Elektra'
Seamus Heaney's 'The Cure at Troy'
'Oedipus at Colonus' and 'Samson Agonistes'
Notes
Suggestions for further reading and bibliography
Glossary
Index
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