Plays of Sophocles

The emphasis throughout this book, ideal for sixth form and early university students, is on Sophocles'' tragic thinking, on the concept of the ''Sophoclean hero'', and on the dramatic structure of the plays. The seven extant plays, Ajax, Women of Trachis, Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra, Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus are assessed and a brief concluding chapter draws together what has ...