Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction / Kirk Ormand -- The textual transmission of Sophocles' dramas / P.J. Finglass -- Sophocles' biography / Ruth Scodel -- Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides / John Davidson -- Antigone / André 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 Dué -- 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.

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