Oedipus Again - Nothing is Written: Tragedy, History, Cinema, Civilization

Thebes is already unstable, visibly unanchored. For far too long, Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus has been read as the tragedy of a man who seeks knowledge and discovers too much. This book argues that such a view suppresses the drama's deeper logic and that it is time to dismiss the old charges against Oedipus. Unlike the myth before it, the play is not about guilty knowledge fatefully inscribed; it ...