Sophocles and the Greek Tragic Tradition Book

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Foreword Paul Cartledge Cartledge, Paul

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1 Sophocles: the state of play Simon Goldhill Goldhill, Simon Edith Hall Hall, Edith 1

Pt. 1 Between Audience and Actor

2 The audience on stage: rhetoric, emotion, and judgement in Sophoclean theatre Simon Goldhill Goldhill, Simon 27

3 'The players will tell all': the dramatist, the actors and the art of acting in Sophocles' Philoctetes Ismene Lada-Richards Lada-Richards, Ismene 48

4 Deianeira deliberates: precipitate decision-making and Trachiniae Edith Hall Hall, Edith 69

Pt. 2 Oedipus and the Play of Meaning

5 Inconclusive conclusion: the ending(s) of Oedipus Tyrannus Peter Burian Burian, Peter 99

6 The third stasimon of Oedipus at Colonus Chris Carey Carey, Chris 119

7 The logic of the unexpected: semantic diversion in Sophocles, Yeats (and Virgil) Michael Silk Silk, Michael 134

8 The French Oedipus of the inter-war period Fiona Macintosh Macintosh, Fiona 158

Pt. 3 Constructing Tragic Traditions

9 Theoretical views of Athenian tragedy in the fifth century BC Kostas Valakas Valakas, Kostas 179

10 Athens and Delphi in Aeschylus' Oresteia Angus Bowie Bowie, Angus 208

11 Feminized males in Bacchae: the importance of discrimination Richard Buxton Buxton, Richard 232

12 Hector's helmet glinting in a fourth-century tragedy Oliver Taplin Taplin, Oliver 251

13 Seeing a Roman tragedy through Greek eyes: Shakespeare's Julius Caesar Christopher Pelling Pelling, Christopher 264

Bibliography 289

Index 317