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The Oedipus casebook : reading Sophocles' Oedipus the King / edited by Mark R. Anspach ; with a new translation of Oedipus Tyrannus by Wm. Blake Tyrrell.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture.
- Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Greek drama (Tragedy)--History and criticism.
- Greek drama (Tragedy).
- Violence in literature.
- Murder in literature.
- Sophocles. Oedipus Rex.
- Sophocles.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 459 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- Who killed Laius? Most readers assume Oedipus did. At the play’s end, he stands convicted of murdering his father, marrying his mother, and triggering a deadly plague. With selections from a stellar assortment of critics, this book reopens the Oedipus case and lets readers judge for themselves.
- Contents:
- The ritual background King and victim Oedipus on trial
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 1-62895-378-0
- 1-60917-615-4
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