A companion to Sophocles edited by Kirk Ormand

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents: Introduction / Kirk Ormand The textual transmission of Sophocles' dramas / P.J. Finglass Sophocles' biography / Ruth Scodel Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides / John Davidson Antigone / Andre Lardinois Polyphonic Ajax / Peter Burian Oedipus Tyrannus / Vayos Liapis Electra / Francis Dunn The divided worlds of Sophocles' Women of Trachis / Margaret Rachel Kitzinger The Philoctetes of Sophocles / Paul Woodruff Last things : Oedipus at Colonus and the end of tragedy / Thomas Van Nortwick Sophocles' Ichneutai or how to write a satyr play / Willeon Slenders Sophoclean fragments / Carolin Hahnemann Sophocles Didaskalos / C.W. Marshall Poetic speakers in Sophocles / Sarah H. Nooter Sophocles' choruses / Sheila Murnaghan Lament as speech act in Sophocles / Casey Due Sophocles and class / Peter W. Rose Sophocles and contemporary politics / Robin Osborne Sophocles and Athenian law / Edward Harris The necessity and limits of deliberation in Sophocles' Theban plays / Edith Hall Heroic pharmacology : Sophocles and the metaphors of Greek medical thought / Robin Mitchell-Boyask Sophocles and hero cult / Bruno Currie Cutting to the bone : recalcitrant bodies in Sophocles / Nancy Worman Staging mothers in Sophocles' Electra and Oedipus the king / Laura McClure Marriage in Sophocles : a problem for social history / Cynthia Patterson Masculinity and freedom in Sophocles / Bruce King Aristotle on Sophocles / John Kirby Sophocles and Homer / Seth L. Schein Facing up to tragedy : towards an intellectual history of Sophocles in Europe from Camerarius to Nietzsche / Michael Lurie Virginia Woolf, Richard Jebb, and Sophocles' Antigone / Denise Eileen McCoskey and Mary Jean Corbett Freud and the drama of oedipal truth / Richard H. Armstrong Sophocles with Lacan / Mark Buchan Oedipus on Oedipus : Sophocles, Seneca, politics, and therapy / Alex Dressler Jean Anouilh's Antigone / Jed Deppman Enter Antigone, let the agones begin : Sophocles' Antigone in nineteenth-century Greece / Gonda Van Steen Tony Harrison's The trackers of Oxyrhynchus / Hallie Rebecca Marshall Black Oedipus / Emily Wilson.