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A Companion to Sophocles
A Companion to Sophocles presents the first comprehensive collection of essays in decades to address all aspects of the life, works, and critical reception of Sophocles. First collection of its kind to provide introductory essays to the fragments of his lost plays and to the remaining fragments of one satyr-play, the Ichneutae, in addition to each of his extant tragedies Features new essays on Sophoclean drama that go well beyond the current state of scholarship on Sophocles Presents readings that historicize Sophocles in relation to the social, cultural, and intellectual world of fifth century Athens Seeks to place later interpretations and adaptations of Sophocles in their historical context Includes essays dedicated to issues of gender and sexuality; significant moments in the history of interpreting Sophocles; and reception of Sophocles by both ancient and modern playwrights
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Electra
Con el paso del tiempo, Sófocles (c. 496-406 a. C.) se ha convertido en el autor paradigmático de la tragedia griega, y sobre su obra descansa en gran medida nuestra comprensión de este género y de sus implicaciones filosóficas y religiosas. Electra es una de las siete tragedias conservadas de Sófocles, cuya fecha de representación nos es desconocida. Dramatiza un episodio mítico de la saga de los Atridas: a su regreso a Micenas de la guerra, Agamenón es asesinado por su mujer, Clitemnestra, y su primo, Egisto. El único hijo varón del matrimonio es Orestes, que siendo un niño es enviado al exilio. En el palacio crecen las hijas, Crisótemis, que se resigna a lo ocurrido, y Electra, que alberga resentimiento contra los asesinos de su padre que la llevarán a vivir en perpetuo lamento anhelando el regreso de su hermano como vengador.
Sophocles: Antigone
Antigone is Sophocles' masterpiece, a seminal influence on a wide range of theatrical, literary, and intellectual traditions all over the world. This volume sets the play in the contexts of its ancient mythical background, its original circumstances of performance, its relation to the culture and thought of contemporary Athens, and the rich and complicated history of its reception. But its main aim is to encourage readers to engage with the text at first hand and to appreciate the inexhaustible richness that makes this play in particular so hard to pin down, so enduringly thought-provoking, and hence so rewarding to study. Though Creon's actions prove disastrous and Antigone's are vindicated...
Greek Tragedy in Action
Oliver Taplin's seminal study was revolutionary in drawing out the significance of stage action in Greek tragedy at a time when plays were often read purely as texts, rather than understood as performances. Professor Taplin explores nine plays, including Aeschylus' agamemnon and Sophocles' Oedipus the King. The details of theatrical techniques and stage directions, used by playwrights to highlight key moments, are drawn out and related to the meaning of each play as a whole. With extensive translated quotations, the essential unity of action and speech in Greek tragedy is demonstrated. Now firmly established as a classic text, Greek Tragedy in Action is even more relevant today, when performances of Greek tragedies and plays inspired by them have had such an extraordinary revival around the world.
