Sophocles' Oedipus rex
By: [edited by] Harold Bloom.
Contributors: Bloom, Harold.
Series: Bloom's guides
Publisher: Chelsea House
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780791093603
Subjects: Sophocles; Oedipus (Greek mythology) in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Clifton W. Collins on shifts in perspective from Aeschylus to Sophocles; title: M. Bowra on right and wrong in Sophocles; title: H. D. F. Kitto on the problem of "justice"; title: Bernard M. W. Knox on the restoration of Oedipus; title: E. R. Dodds on Oedipus as a free agent; title: Herbert Musurillo on ship-of-state imagery; title: David Seale on the stagecraft of the opening scene; title: Cynthia Gardiner on the contribution of the chorus; title: Christopher Rocco on "tyrannos"; title: Felix Budelmann on the expanded focus of the play; title: Alan H. Sommerstein on the world of Sophocles.