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Oedipus the King and Other Tragedies

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Greek drama
ISBN : 9780192806857

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"Sophocles stands as one of the greatest dramatists of all time, influencing a vast array of artists and thinkers over the centuries. Disturbing and unrelenting, his tragedies portray what Matthew Arnold referred to as 'the turbid ebb and flow of human misery', allowing the audience to stand on the verge of the abyss and confront the waste and disorder of human existence. The heroic myths reinterpreted in the plays locate them within a world in which the extremes of human emotion in its darkest hours can be freely explored. It is, however, the creativity of Sophocles' plays which prevents them from descending into unbridled chaos or despair. The unflinching engagement with heartrending suffering reveals strengths held within the carefully crafted poetry, lyricism, and movement. There is, as Taplin writes, 'no blinking, no evasion, no palliative. ... Out of apparently meaningless suffering comes meaning and form.' This original and distinctive verse translation of four of Sophocles' plays conveys the vitality of his poetry and the vigour of the plays as performed showpieces, encouraging the reader to relish the sound of the spoken verse and the potential for song within the lyrics. Each play is accompanied by an introduction and substantial notes on points of fact and interpretation, drawing on the translator's many years of lecturing on Sophocles at the University of Oxford."--Publisher information.

Sophocles' Oedipus the King

Author : Sirish Rao
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Blind
ISBN : 0892367644

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Sophocles' Oedipus the King by Sirish Rao Pdf

Presents a retelling of the classic Greek tragedy of Oedipus, who unknowingly murdered his father and married his mother and then puts out his own eyes when he discovers the truth.

Oedipus The King

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Franklin Classics
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0343221667

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Oedipus The King by Sophocles Pdf

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Oedipus Rex

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780486268774

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Oedipus Rex by Sophocles Pdf

One of the greatest of the classic Greek tragedies and a masterpiece of dramatic construction. Catastrophe ensues when King Oedipus discovers he has inadvertently killed his father and married his mother. Masterly use of dramatic irony greatly intensifies impact of agonizing events. Sophocles' finest play, Oedipus Rex ranks as a towering landmark of Western drama. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.

Oedipus the King

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1988-03-31
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0195054938

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Oedipus the King by Sophocles Pdf

Dramatizes the story of Oedipus, who killed his father and married his mother.

Four Tragedies

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781603840347

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Four Tragedies by Sophocles Pdf

Meineck and Woodruff's new annotated translations of Sophocles' Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, and Philoctetes combine the same standards of accuracy, concision, clarity, and powerful speech that have so often made their Theban Plays a source of epiphany in the classroom and of understanding in the theatre. Woodruff's Introduction offers a brisk and stimulating discussion of central themes in Sophoclean drama, the life of the playwright, staging issues, and each of the four featured plays.

Five Great Greek Tragedies

Author : Sophocles,Euripides,Aeschylus
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-03
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780486113883

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Five Great Greek Tragedies by Sophocles,Euripides,Aeschylus Pdf

Features Oedipus Rex and Electra by Sophocles (translated by George Young), Medea and Bacchae by Euripides (translated by Henry Hart Milman), and Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus (translated by George Thomson).

Antigone; Oedipus the King; Electra

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-14
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780191561108

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Antigone; Oedipus the King; Electra by Sophocles Pdf

Love and loyalty, hatred and revenge, fear, deprivation, and political ambition: these are the motives which thrust the characters portrayed in these three Sophoclean masterpieces on to their collision course with catastrophe. Recognized in his own day as perhaps the greatest of the Greek tragedians, Sophocles' reputation has remained undimmed for two and a half thousand years. His greatest innovation in the tragic medium was his development of a central tragic figure, faced with a test of will and character, risking obloquy and death rather than compromise his or her principles: it is striking that Antigone and Electra both have a woman as their intransigent 'hero'. Antigone dies rather neglect her duty to her family, Oedipus' determination to save his city results in the horrific discovery that he has committed both incest and parricide, and Electra's unremitting anger at her mother and her lover keeps her in servitude and despair. These vivid translations combine elegance and modernity, and are remarkable for their lucidity and accuracy. Their sonorous diction, economy, and sensitivity to the varied metres and modes of the original musical delivery make them equally suitable for reading or theatrical peformance. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Oedipus at Colonus

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781504062831

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Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles Pdf

The ancient Greek tragedy about the exiled king’s final days—and the power struggle between his two sons. The second book in the trilogy that begins with Oedipus Rex and concludes with Antigone, Oedipus at Colonus is the story of an aged and blinded Oedipus anticipating his death as foretold by an earlier prophecy. Accompanied by his daughters, Antigone and Ismene, he takes up residence in the village of Colonus near Athens—where the locals fear his very presence will curse them. Nonetheless they allow him to stay, and Ismene informs him his sons are battling each other for the throne of Thebes. An oracle has pronounced that the location of their disgraced father’s final resting place will determine which of them is to prevail. Unfortunately, an old enemy has his own plans for the burial, in this heart-wrenching play about two generations plagued by misfortune from the world’s great ancient Greek tragedian.

Antigone and other Tragedies

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780192608888

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Antigone and other Tragedies by Sophocles Pdf

Sophocles stands as one of the greatest dramatists of all time, and one of the most influential on artists and thinkers over the centuries. His plays are deeply disturbing and unpredictable, unrelenting and open-ended, refusing to present firm answers to the questions of human existence, or to provide a redemptive justification of the ways of gods to men or women. These three tragedies portray the extremes of human suffering and emotion, turning the heroic myths into supreme works of poetry and dramatic action. Antigone's obsession with the dead, Creon's crushing inflexibility, Deianeira's jealous desperation, the injustice of the gods witnessed by Hyllus, Electra's obsessive vindictiveness, the threatening of insoluble dynastic contamination... Such are the pains and distortions and instabilities of Sophoclean tragedy. And yet they do not deteriorate into cacophony or disgust or incoherence or silence: they face the music, and through that the suffering is itself turned into the coherence of music and poetry. These original and distinctive verse translations convey the vitality of Sophocles' poetry and the vigour of the plays in performance, doing justice to both the sound of the poetry and the theatricality of the tragedies. Each play is accompanied by an introduction and substantial notes on topographical and mythical references and interpretation.

The Theban Plays

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1973-04-26
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780141905648

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The Theban Plays by Sophocles Pdf

King Oedipus/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone Three towering works of Greek tragedy depicting the inexorable downfall of a doomed royal dynasty The legends surrounding the house of Thebes inspired Sophocles to create this powerful trilogy about humanity's struggle against fate. King Oedipus is the devastating portrayal of a ruler who brings pestilence to Thebes for crimes he does not realize he has committed and then inflicts a brutal punishment upon himself. Oedipus at Colonus provides a fitting conclusion to the life of the aged and blinded king, while Antigone depicts the fall of the next generation, through the conflict between a young woman ruled by her conscience and a king too confident of his own authority. Translated with an Introduction by E. F. WATLING

Dramatic Action in Greek Tragedy and Noh

Author : Mae J. Smethurst
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780739172438

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Dramatic Action in Greek Tragedy and Noh by Mae J. Smethurst Pdf

By looking at 15th/16th realistic noh and Greek tragedies through the lens of Aristotle and of each other, this comparison reveals a previously unnoticed relationship between the structure of the tragedies and their performance, that is, the involvement of the third actor at the climactic moments of the plot in both and the actor stepping out of character in noh. This observation helps to account for Aristotle’s view that tragedy be limited to three actors.

Greek Tragedies

Author : David Grene,Richmond Alexander Lattimore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Greek drama
ISBN : OCLC:316937168

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Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus

Author : Jennifer R. March
Publisher : Aris and Phillips Classical Te
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789622546

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Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus by Jennifer R. March Pdf

Oedipus Tyrannus by the great tragedian Sophocles is one of the most famous works of ancient Greek literature. The play has always been admired for the tight unity of its plot; every bit of every scene counts towards the dramatic effect. The action is concentrated into a single day in Oedipus' life; his heinous crimes of unwittingly killing his father and marrying his mother all lie long ago in the past, and now, in the action of this one day, there awaits for him only the discovery of the truth. Oedipus is portrayed as a noble king, deeply devoted to his people and they to him. Proud of his earlier defeat of the Sphinx, he is determined to save his city once again, and he unflinchingly pursues the truth of who he is and what he has done, unaware that it will bring him to disaster. The spectators, familiar with Oedipus' story, wait in horrified suspense for that terrible moment of realisation to arrive. And when it does, Oedipus survives it: he takes full responsibility for what he has done, accepts the grief and the pain, and carries on, remaining indomitable to the end. Sophocles gives no answer as to why Oedipus is made to suffer his tragic fate. He simply shows us how human life is; how even a great and good man can be brought to the utmost misery through no fault of his own. The gods may, for no apparent reason, deal out unbelievable suffering, but humankind can survive it. Jenny March's new facing-page translation brings alive the power and complexities of Sophocles' writing, with a substantial introduction and a detailed commentary.

The Theban Plays

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780486114972

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The Theban Plays by Sophocles Pdf

The stirring tale of a legendary royal family's fall and ultimate redemption, the Theban trilogy endures as the crowning achievement of Greek drama. Essential reading for English and classical studies majors.