Oedipus at Colonus and King Lear: Classical and Early Modern Intersections
Oedipus at Colonus and King Lear: Classical and Early Modern Intersections

Author: Silvia Bigliazzi

Publisher: Skenè. Texts and Studies

Published: 2019-12-29

Total Pages: 454

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The story of King Lear seems to fill in the blank space separating the end of Oedipus Tyrannus and the beginning of Oedipus at Colonus. In both Oedipus at Colonus and the latter part of King Lear we are presented with an old man who was once a King and, following his expulsion from his kingdom on account of a crime or of an error, is turned into a ‘no-thing’. This happens in the time of the division of the kingdom, which is also the time of the genesis of intraspecific conflict and, consequently, of the end of the dynasty. This collection of essays offers a range of perspectives on the many common concerns of these two plays, from the relation between fathers and sons/daughters to madness and wisdom, from sinning and suffering to ‘being’ and ‘non-being’ in human and divine time. It also offers an overarching critical frame that interrogates questions of ‘source’ and ‘reception’, probing into the possible exchangeability of perspectives in a game of mirrors that challenges ideas of origin.

Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus The King; Oedipus At Colonus; Antigone
Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus The King; Oedipus At Colonus; Antigone

Author: Sophocles

Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan

Published: 2021-01-01

Total Pages: 205

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"To Laius, King of Thebes, an oracle foretold that the child born to him by his queen Jocasta would slay his father and wed his mother. So when in time a son was born the infant's feet were riveted together and he was left to die on Mount Cithaeron. But a shepherd found the babe and tended him, and delivered him to another shepherd who took him to his master, the King of Corinth. Polybus being childless adopted the boy, who grew up believing that he was indeed the King's son. Afterwards doubting his parentage he inquired of the Delphic god and heard himself the word declared before to Laius." -Preface

The Oedipus Cycle
The Oedipus Cycle

Author: Sophocles

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 1977

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 9780156027649

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English versions of Sophocles' three great tragedies based on the myth of Oedipus, translated for a modern audience by two gifted poets. Index.

Oedipus
Oedipus

Author: Derek Mahon

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13:

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Pairing 'King Oedipus' and 'Oedipus at Colonus' creates a single play unified by the arc of the hero's tragic fate.

The Gospel at Colonus
The Gospel at Colonus

Author: Lee Breuer

Publisher: Theatre Communications Group

Published: 1993-01-01

Total Pages: 79

ISBN-13: 1559366788

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A founding member of the acclaimed New York-based company Mabou Mines, Breuer's gifts as a writer and director have have made him a mainstay of the theatrical avant-garde.

Late Sophocles
Late Sophocles

Author: Thomas Van Nortwick

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2015-02-26

Total Pages: 163

ISBN-13: 0472119567

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An accessible examination of the evolution of key Sophoclean characters

Oedipus at Colonus
Oedipus at Colonus

Author: Andreas Markantonatos

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2012-02-14

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 3110920484

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This book aims to offer a contemporary literary interpretation of the play, including a readable discussion of its underlying historical, religious, moral, social, and mythical issues. Also, it discusses the most recent interpretative scholarship on the play, the main intertextual affiliations with earlier Thebes-related tragedies, especially focusing on Sophocles’ Antigone and Oedipus Tyrannus, and the literature and performance reception of the play; it contains an up-to-date bibliography and detailed indices. The book won the Academy of Athens Great Award for the Best Monograph in Classical Philology for 2008.

The Theban Plays
The Theban Plays

Author: Sophocles

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 1973-04-26

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 0141905646

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King Oedipus/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone Three towering works of Greek tragedy depicting the inexorable downfall of a doomed royal dynasty The legends surrounding the house of Thebes inspired Sophocles to create this powerful trilogy about humanity's struggle against fate. King Oedipus is the devastating portrayal of a ruler who brings pestilence to Thebes for crimes he does not realize he has committed and then inflicts a brutal punishment upon himself. Oedipus at Colonus provides a fitting conclusion to the life of the aged and blinded king, while Antigone depicts the fall of the next generation, through the conflict between a young woman ruled by her conscience and a king too confident of his own authority. Translated with an Introduction by E. F. WATLING

The Complete Poetry of Catullus
The Complete Poetry of Catullus

Author: Catullus

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres

Published: 2002-07-15

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 0299177734

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Catullus’ life was akin to pulp fiction. In Julius Caesar’s Rome, he engages in a stormy affair with a consul’s wife. He writes her passionate poems of love, hate, and jealousy. The consul, a vehement opponent of Caesar, dies under suspicious circumstances. The merry widow romances numerous young men. Catullus is drawn into politics and becomes a cocky critic of Caesar, writing poems that dub Julius a low-life pig and a pervert. Not surprisingly, soon after, no more is heard of Catullus. David Mulroy brings to life the witty, poignant, and brutally direct voice of a flesh-and-blood man, a young provincial in the Eternal City, reacting to real people and events in a Rome full of violent conflict among individuals marked by genius and megalomaniacal passions. Mulroy’s lively, rhythmic translations of the poems are enhanced by an introduction and commentary that provide biographical and bibliographical information about Catullus, a history of his times, a discussion of the translations, and definitions and notes that ease the way for anyone who is not a Latin scholar.

Allegory and the Tragic Chorus in Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus
Allegory and the Tragic Chorus in Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus

Author: Roger Travis

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 9780847696093

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In this book, Roger Travis brings together poetics and psychology to study the tragic chorus in Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus. Beginning from Quintilian's definition of allegory as extended metaphor, Travis argues that in Oedipus at Colonus the chorus of old men forms an allegorical relationship with the aged Oedipus, which depends in turn upon the chorus's own likeness to the Athenian audience. The play relates Oedipus allegorically to the audience through the tragic chorus and transforms Oedipus' relation to the body of his mother Jocasta into a new relation to the land of Attica. Corresponding readings of Aeschylus' Suppliants and Euripides' Bacchea further explore the chorus's role in expressing the relation of the individual to the maternal body. Employing a flexible combination of Lacanian and object-relations psychoanalytic theory, Travis investigates the tragic text's conception of the problems of human existence. The introduction provides a useful survey of the advantages and disadvantages of various psychological approaches to tragedy, making this an important volume for students and scholars alike.