Sophocles and the Greek tragic tradition - Goldhill, Simon; Hall, Edith 1959-. (Cambridge, UK New York Cambridge University Press, 2009)
Sophocles : the state of play / Simon Goldhill and Edith Hall -- pt. 1. Between audience and actor -- The audience on stage : rhetoric, emotion, and judgement in Sophoclean theatre / Simon Goldhill -- 'The players will tell all' : the dramatist, the actors and the art of acting in Sophocles' Philoctetes / Ismene Lada-Richards -- Deianeira deliberates : precipitate decision-making and trachiniae / Edith Hall -- pt. 2. Oedipus and the play of meaning -- Inconclusive conclusion : the ending(s) of the Oedipus Tyrannus / Peter Burian -- The third stasimon of Oedipus at Colonus / Chris Carey -- The logic of the unexpected : semantic diversion in Sophocles, Yeats (and Virgil) / Michael Silk -- The French Oedipus of the inter-war period / Fiona Macintosh -- pt. 3. Constructing tragic traditions -- Theoretical views of Athenian tragedy in the fifth century BC / Kostas Valakas -- Athens and Delphi in Aeschylus' Oresteia / Angus Bowie -- Feminized males in Bacchae : the importance of discrimination / Richard Buxton -- Hector's helmet glinting in a fourth-century tragedy / Oliver Taplin -- Seeing a Roman tragedy through Greek eyes : Shakespeare's Julius Caesar / Christopher Pelling.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-316) and index.
Keywords: Easterling, P. E; Sophocles -- Criticism and interpretation; Oedipus (Greek mythological figure) in literature; Mythology, Greek, in literature; Tragedy