The Tragedies of Sophocles
James Morwood
Abstract
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 chapter 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, the book 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.
Keywords: Sophocles, Ajax, Women of Trachis, Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra, Philoctetes, Oedipus at Colonus, Greek tragedy, major masterpieces
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2008 | Print ISBN-13: 9781904675716 |
| Published to Liverpool Scholarship Online: May 2014 | DOI:10.5949/liverpool/9781904675716.001.0001 |
