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The Three Theban Plays
Description
Sophocles' Theban plays: "Antigone", "Oedipus the King" and "Oedipus at Colonus". They depict Oedipus's fierce heroic encounter with his gods, and reveal Sophocles' masterful characterizations, dramatic speech and use of irony. Bernard Knox introduces each play.Author description
Sophocles was born in 496 BC. His long life spanned the rise and decline of the Athenian Empire. He wrote over a hundred plays, many of which are published as Penguin Classics, drawing on a wide and varied range of themes. E.F. Watling translated a range of Greek and Roman plays for Penguin, including the seven plays of Sophocles and the tragedies of Seneca.Stock Information
General Fields
- : 9780140444254
- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : Penguin Classics
- : May 1984
- : 197mm X 129mm X 19mm
- : books
Special Fields
- : illustrations, bibliography
- : 432
- : Paperback
- : Sophocles
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