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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

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