Sophocles: Four Tragedies: Oedipus the King, Aias, Philoctetes, Oedipus at Colonus

by Oliver Taplin

Sophocles stands as one of the greatest dramatists of all time, influencing a vast array of artists and thinkers over the centuries. Disturbing and unrelenting, his tragedies portray what Matthew Arnold referred to as 'the turbid ebb and flow of human misery', allowing the audience to stand on the verge of the abyss and confront the waste and disorder of human existence. The heroic myths reinterpreted in the plays locate them within a world in which...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019928623X
• ISBN13: 9780199286232
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.5" x 8.8"