Sophocles : The Theban Plays

ISBN-13: 9780815303343 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 320 str.

Roger D. Dawe; D. Dawe Roger; Ward Briggs

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A collection of 21 essays written in the 19th and 20th century examining the influence of the Greek playwright on Western Civilization from the 1585 performance of Oedipus Rex at Vicenze to the present. They include discussions of Freud and the Oedipus Complex, views of generations of critics, and t

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SERIES PREFACE, INTRODUCTION, ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, Letter Describing the Performance of Oedipus Rex at Vicenza in 1585, Oedipus at Vicenza and Paris: Two Stages in a Saga, From Preface to Oedipus, Letters on Oedipus, Letter III: Containing the Critique of the Oedipus of Sophocles, Remarks upon Oedipus, What Lies behind the Notes: The Translations of the Antigone of Sophocles in the 18th Century, Preface: The Oedipus Tyrannus of Sophocles, Preface: The Tragedies of Sophocles; Oedipus, King of Thebes, From Laokoon, From Kritische Walder: Erstes Waldchen, Holderlin's Translations, Sophocles and Holderlin, The Bride of Messina, Life and Political Character of Sophocles-Character of His Different Tragedies, From The Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret, On the Irony of Sophocles, Lecture XXVIII, The Oedipus Complex, Chapter 10 of From Sophocles to Sartre, The Descendants of Labdacus in the Theatrical Works of Jean Cocteau, Ancient Tragedy on the Modern Stage

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R.D. Dawe, translated by Don Taylor