Sophocles Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus & Antigone

by Bloom, Harold

• ISBN13: 9780791041420
• ISBN10: 0791041425
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-01-01
• Publisher: Facts on File

Table of Contents

Editor's Note	4	(1)
Introduction	5	(3)
Biography of Sophocles	8	(3)
Thematic and Structural Analysis	11	(13)
List of Characters	24	(3)
Critical Views	27	(1)
Pity and Fear Oedipus the King	27	(1)
Arisotle
Oedipus Colonus and Old Age	28	(1)
Cicero
The Paradoxes in the Story	28	(2)
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Moral Focus of Antigone	30	(2)
E. S. Shuckburgh
Sophocles' Conception of the Gods	32	(1)
T. B. L. Webster
Dramatic Technique in Oedipus the King	33	(2)
E. T. Owen
the Contrast Between the Plays	35	(3)
C. M. Bowra
Wisdom, Misfortune, and Guilt	38	(2)
Cedric H. Whitman
Existentialism in Oedipus The King	40	(3)
Richmond Y. Hathorn
Antigone and Ismene	43	(2)
G. M. Kirkwood
the Role of the Gods in Antigone	45	(2)
H. D. F. Kitto
Oedipus' Death	47	(2)
Bernard M. W. Knox
Incest and Self-Blinding in the Play	49	(4)
G. Devereux
The Character of Creon	53	(1)
R. P. Winnington-Ingram
Seeing in Oedipus at Colonus	54	(2)
David Seale
Antigone's Flaws	56	(3)
Richard W. Minadeo
Antigone's ``Ode to Man''	59	(1)
Warren J.
Ann M. Lane
Antigone and Marriage	60	(2)
Sheila Murnaghan
Oedipus' Motivations	62	(3)
Mary Whitlock Blundell
Burial in Antigone	65	(2)
Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood
The Character of Jocasta	67	(2)
Frederick Ahl
Oedipus and Laius in Oedipus the King	69	(4)
Pietro Pucci
The Greatness of Oedipus the King	73	(3)
Charles Segal
Works by Sophocles	76	(2)
Works about Sophocles and the Oedipus Plays	78	(4)
Index of Themes and Ideas	82