A Companion to Sophocles presents the first comprehensive collection of essays in decades to address all aspects of the life, works, and critical receptionof 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 placelater 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 INDICE : Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Kirk Ormand Part I: Text and Author 2. The Textual Transmission of Sophocles' Dramas: P.J. Finglass 3. Sophocles' Biography: Ruth Scodel 4. Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides: John Davidson Part II: The Plays and Fragments 5. Antigone: André Lardinois 6. Polyphonic Ajax: Peter Burian 7. Oedipus Tyrannus: Vayos Liapis 8. Electra: Francis Dunn 9. The Divided Worlds of Sophocles' Women of Trachis: Margaret Rachel Kitzinger 10. The Philoctetes of Sophocles: Paul Woodruff 11. LastThings: Oedipus at Colonus and the End of Tragedy: Thomas Van Nortwick 12. Sophocles' Ichneutai or How to Write a Satyr Play: Willeon Slenders 13. Sophoclean Fragments: Carolin Hahnemann Part III: Sophoclean Techniques 14. Sophocles Didaskalos: C.W. Marshall 15. Poetic Speakers in Sophocles: Sarah H. Nooter 16. Sophocles' Choruses: Sheila Murnaghan 17. Lament as Speech Act in Sophocles:Casey Dué Part IV: Sophocles and fifth century political, religious, and intellectual thought 18. Sophocles and Class: Peter W. Rose 19. Sophocles and Contemporary Politics: Robin Osborne 20. Sophocles and Athenian Law: Edward Harris21. The Necessity and Limits of Deliberation in Sophocles' Theban Plays: Edith Hall 22. Heroic Pharmacology: Sophocles and the Metaphors of Greek Medical Thought: Robin Mitchell-Boyask 23. Sophocles and Hero Cult: Bruno Currie Part V: Gender and sexuality 24. Cutting to the Bone: Recalcitrant Bodies in Sophocles: Nancy Worman 25. Staging Mothers in Sophocles' Electra and Oedipus the King: Laura McClure 26. Marriage in Sophocles: A Problem for Social History: Cynthia Patterson 27. Masculinity and Freedom in Sophocles: Bruce King Part VI: Historical Interpretations 28. Aristotle on Sophocles: John Kirby 29. Sophocles and Homer: Seth L. Schein 30. Facing Up To Tragedy: Towards an Intellectual History of Sophocles in Europe from Camerarius to Nietzsche: Michael Lurie 31. Virginia Woolf, Richard Jebb, and Sophocles' Antigone: Denise Eileen McCoskey and Mary Jean Corbett 32. Freud and the Drama of Oedipal Truth: Richard H. Armstrong 33. Sophocles with Lacan: Mark Buchan Part VII: Influence and Imitation 34. Oedipus on Oedipus: Sophocles, Seneca, Politics, and Therapy: Alex Dressler 35. Jean Anouilh's Antigone: Jed Deppman 36. Enter Antigone, let the Agones begin: Sophocles' Antigone in Nineteenth-Century Greece: Gonda Van Steen 37. Tony Harrison's The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus: Hallie Rebecca Marshall 38. Black Oedipus: Emily Wilson
- ISBN: 978-1-4051-8726-8
- Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 624
- Fecha Publicación: 23/03/2012
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés