Title: Sophocles /
Authors: Bloom, Harold
Publisher: Chelsea House Publishers,
Year: 1990
Subjects: Sophocles Criticism and interpretation.; Mythology, Greek, in literature.; Tragedy.
Abstract: Contains eleven critical essays on the works of Sophocles, arranged in chronological order of publication.
Contents: The Ajax of Sophocles / Bernard M.W. Knox -- Sophocles' Electra / John Jones -- The nightingale and the olive / A.S. McDevitt -- The Trachiniae / Marsh McCall -- Suppliant and saviour / Peter Burian -- Light and darkness in Sophocles' Ajax / W.B. Stanford -- Blindness and limits / R.G.A. Buxton -- Fate in Sophocles / R.P. Winnington-Ingram -- What happens in Philoctetes? / Meredith Clarke Hoppin -- Antigone / Charles Segal -- The language of Oedipus / Jonn Gould.