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Drama
Sophocles
Sophocles (495-404 B.C.), along with the dramatists Aeschylus
and Euripides, was the leading playwright of the Greek classical theatre.
Although little is known about his life, he is credited as the author of hundreds
of plays, of which only seven survive: the so-called "Theban Plays" for which
he is best known, Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone;
and four other tragedies, Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra,
and Philoctetes. The earliest surviving plays Ajax and Antigone
date from 441-442 B.C, after Sophocles had been writing for more than a quarter
of a century. Oedipus Rex came fourteen or fifteen years later, and
Oedipus at Colonus was produced the year before his death.
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Bibliography of Sophocles' Work
Sophocles. Sophocles I: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone. Trans. David Grene, Robert Fitgerald, Elizabeth Wyckoff. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1954.
_________. Sophocles II. Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, and Philoctetes. Trans. John Moore, Michael Jameson, and David Grene. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1957.
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Select Bibliography of Works on Sophocles and the Greek Theatre
Bloom, Harold, ed. Sophocles' Oedipus Rex. New York: Chelsea House, 1988.
Buxton, R. G. A. Sophocles. New York: Clarendon, 1984.
Easterling, P.E., ed. The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997.
Fergusson, Francis. The Idea of a Theater. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1949.
Foley, Helene P. Female Acts in Greek Tragedy. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2001.
Kitto, H.D.F. Sophocles: Dramatist and Philosopher. London: Oxford UP, 1958.
Knox, Bernard. Word and Action: Essays on Ancient Theater. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1979.
O'Brien, M.J., ed. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Oedipus Rex. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice, 1968.
Wiles, David. Tragedy in Athens: Performance space and theatrical meaning. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997.
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