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Oedipus Tyrannus
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Table of Contents

Illustrations
Preface to the Second Edition
A Note on References and Acknowledgments
Chronology
LITERARY AND HISTORICAL CONTEXT
1: Introduction
2: Historical and Cultural Background
3: Performance, Theater, and Social Context
4: The Oedipus Myth and Its Interpretation
5: Oedipus and the Trials of the Hero
6: Life's Tragic Shape: Plot, Design, and Destiny
READING OEDIPUS TYRANNUS
7: The Crisis of the City and the King
8: Discovery and Reversal
9: Resolution: Tragic Suffering, Heroic Endurance
10: Inner Vision and Theatrical Spectacle
11: "To Look upon the Light for the Last Time": The Place of Oedipus Tyrannus in Sophocles' Work
12: Reception, Influence, and Recent Literary Criticism
Selected bibliography
Index

About the Author

Charles Segal is Walter C. Klein Professor of the Classics at Harvard University.

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"A good and useful book that raises important questions and considers significant areas....Written with Segal's usual clarity and grace."--James Obertino, Central Missouri State University

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