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...
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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
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Series Preface; Introduction; Acknowledgments; Letter Describing the Performance of Oedipus Rex at Vicenza in 1585; Oedipus at Vicenza and Paris: Two Stages in a Saga; From Preface to Oedipus; Letters on Oedipus, Letter III: Containing the Critique of the Oedipus of Sophocles; Remarks upon Oedipus; What Lies behind the Notes: The Translations of the Antigone of Sophocles in the 18th Century; I. The Note or the Other Translation; II. The Note and the Text; A. The Note and the Greek; B. The status of Latin
III. The Note and the ContextA. The Sophoclean corpus; B. The civilization of antiquity; IV. The Way the Notes are Deployed; What lies behind the notes: their dual working; Preface: The Oedipus Tyrannus of Sophocles; Preface: The Tragedies of Sophocles; Preface to Oedipus, King of Thebes; From Laokoon; From Kritische Wälder: Erstes Wäldchen; Hölderlin's Translations, Wolfgang Schadewaldt; Style of the Translation: Limitations; Sophocles and Hölderlin; I. Oedipus der Tyrann and Antigonä; The Bride of Messina; 1. The Plot; 3. The Chorus; 3c. Comparison with the Sophoclean Chorus; 5. Conclusion
Life and Political Character of Sophocles-Character of His Different TragediesFrom The Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret; On the Irony of Sophocles; Lecture XXVIII; The Oedipus Complex; Chapter 10 of From Sophocles to Sartre; The Descendants of Labdacus in the Theatrical Works of Jean Cocteau; Ancient Tragedy on the Modern Stage; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8
