Oedipus Tyrannus (Norton Critical Edition)

by Sophocles; Berkowitz, Luci; Brunner, Theodore F.

• ISBN13: 9780393098747
• ISBN10: 0393098745
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1970-07-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Summary

This translation is for the contemporary reader. Specifically commissioned for stage production, it rings easily on the modern ear and yet remains faithful to Sophocles' original, avoiding the archaisms of other translations.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
The Text of Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus	1	(33)
Map	34	(1)
Passages from Ancient Authors	35	(8)
Homer's Odyssey, Book 11, lines 271--280	37	(1)
Thucydides' Account of the Plague	37	(3)
Jocasta's Opening Speech in Euripides' Phoenissae	40	(3)
Religion and Psychology: Some Studies	43	(30)
[The Origin of the Oedipus Myth]	45	(2)
Martin P. Nilsson
[Oedipus and Job]	47	(5)
Meyer Fortes
Oracles and Dramaturgy	52	(7)
Gordon M. Kirkwood
Taboo and Neurotic Guilt in the Oedipus Theme	59	(10)
Thalia Phillies Feldman
[The Oedipus Complex]	69	(4)
Sigmund Freud
Criticism	73	(187)
Essays in Criticism	75	(116)
Selections from Aristotle's Poetics	75	(7)
[Sophoclean Characters]	82	(24)
C. M. Bowra
[The Characters of the Oedipus Tyrannus]	106	(2)
R. C. Jebb
Oedipus Tyrannus	108	(5)
S. M. Adams
Drama of Dramas: The Oedipus Tyrannus	113	(15)
A. J. A. Waldock
[Oedipus: An Analytic Tragedy]	128	(4)
Albin Lesky
[Sophocles and the Tragic Character]	132	(3)
Werner Jaeger
[The Triple Fate of Oedipus]	135	(1)
Friedrich Nietzsche
[The Tyrannus: Action and Actors]	136	(10)
John Jones
[The Drama of Oedipus]	146	(2)
D. W. Lucas
[Oedipus and God]	148	(17)
Bernard M. W. Knox
[Jocasta]	165	(6)
Cedric H. Whitman
[The Chorus in the Tyrannus]	171	(7)
Richmond Lattimore
Oedipus and the Absurd Life	178	(4)
Robert Cohen
Oedipus Rex: The Tragic Rhythm of Action	182	(5)
Francis Fergusson
Hamlet and the Oedipus	187	(4)
H. D. F. Kitto
The Problem of Guilt	191	(69)
The Innocence of Oedipus	191	(13)
J. T. Sheppard
[The Flaw of Oedipus]	204	(3)
Laszlo Versenyi
The Guilt of Oedipus	207	(11)
P. H. Vellacott
On Misunderstanding the Oedipus Rex	218	(11)
E. R. Dodds
The Chorus in Oedipus Tyrannus	229	(17)
P. H. Vellacott
The Innocence of Oedipus	246	(4)
Thomas Gould
The Guilt of Oedipus	250	(10)
Philip Wheelwright
Bibliography	260