ABSTRACT

Linked by their common setting in Thebes, Antigone, Oedipus the King, and Oedipus at Colonus stand at the fountainhead of world drama. This volume presents a new, and accurate yet poetic and playable translation by playwright Don Taylor, who has also directed plays for a BBC-TV production.

chapter 2|19 pages

Oedipus at Vicenza and Paris

Two Stages in a Saga

chapter 3|2 pages

From Preface to Oedipus

chapter 4|10 pages

Letters on Oedipus

chapter 5|10 pages

Remarks Upon Oedipus

chapter 6|18 pages

What Lies Behind the Notes

The Translations of the Antigone of Sophocles in the 18th Century

chapter 7|3 pages

Preface

The Oedipus Tyrannus of Sophocles

chapter 8|5 pages

Preface

The Tragedies of Sophocles

chapter 9|6 pages

From Laokoon

chapter 10|13 pages

From Kritische Wälder

Erstes Wäldchen

chapter 11|10 pages

Hölderlin's Translations

chapter 12|26 pages

Sophocles and Hölderlin

chapter 13|21 pages

The Bride of Messina

chapter 16|45 pages

On the Irony of Sophocles

chapter 17|18 pages

Lecture XXVIII

chapter 18|8 pages

The Oedipus Complex

chapter 19|18 pages

Antigone