The Theban plays

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The Theban plays

Title:

The Theban plays

Author:

Sophocles.

ISBN:

9780140440034

Personal Author:

Uniform Title:

Selections. English. 1947

Publication Information:

Harmondsworth, Middlesex : Penguin, 1947.

Physical Description:

168 p. ; 18 cm.

Series:

Penguin classics ; L3

Penguin classics

Series Title:

Penguin classics ; L3

Contents:

King Oedipus -- Oedipus at Colonus -- Antigone.

Personal Subject:

Sophocles-Translations into English.

Subject Term:

Oedipus (Greek mythology) -- Drama.

Antigone (Greek mythology) -- Drama.

Greek drama (Tragedy) -- Translations into English.

Geographic Term:

Thebes (Greece) -- Drama.

Added Author:

Sophocles. Oedipus at Colonus. English.

Sophocles. Oedipus Rex. English.

Sophocles. Antigone. English.

Added Title:

King Oedipus.

Oedipus at Colonus.

Antigone.

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Summary

Summary

The legends surrounding the royal house of Thebes inspired Sophocles to create a powerful trilogy of mankind's struggle aginst fate.

KING OEDIPUS tells of a man who brings pestilence to Thebes for crimes he doesn't realise he has committed, and then inflicts a brutal punishment on himself. It is a devastating portrayl of a ruler brought down by his own oath. 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 in his own authority.

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