Sophocles and the Greek tragic tradition
By: edited by Simon Goldhill and Edith Hall.
Contributors: Goldhill, Simon.; Hall, Edith, 1959-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780521887854
Subjects: Sophocles -- Criticism and interpretation; Oedipus (Greek mythology) in literature; Mythology, Greek, in literature; Tragedy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Sophocles : the state of play / Simon Goldhill and Edith Hall; title: Section A : between audience and actor; title: The audience on stage : rhetoric, emotion, and judgement in sophoclean theatre / Simon Goldhill; title: The players will tell all : the dramatist, the actors and the art of acting in Sophocles' Philoctetes / Ismene Lada-Richards; title: Deianeira deliberates : precipitate decision-taking and trachiniae / Edith Hall; title: Section B : Oedipus and the play of meaning; title: Inconclusive conclusion : the ending(s) of the Oedipus Tyrannus / Peter Burian; title: The third stasimon of Oedipus at Colonus / Chris Carey; title: The logic of the unexpected : semantic diversion in Sophocles, Yeats (and Virgil) / Michael Silk; title: The french Oedipus of the inter-war period / Fiona Macintosh; title: Constructing tragic traditions : theoretical views of athenian tragedy in the fifth century BC / Kostas Valakas; title: Athens and Delphi in Aeschylus' Oresteia / Angus Bowie; title: Feminized males in Bacchae : the importance of discrimination / Richard Buxton; title: Hektor's helmet glinting in a fourth-century tragedy / Oliver Taplin; title: Seeing a Roman tragedy through Greek eyes : Shakespeare's Julius Caesar / Chris Pelling.