Table Of Contents:

List of illustrations vii
Notes on contributors viii
Foreword xi

Paul Cartledge
Acknowledgements xiii

List of abbreviations xv

Sophocles: the state of play 1(26)

Simon Goldhill

Edith Hall

PART ONE BETWEEN AUDIENCE AND ACTOR

The audience on stage: rhetoric, emotion, and judgement in Sophoclean theatre 27(21)

Simon Goldhill

`The players will tell all': the dramatist, the actors and the art of acting in Sophocles' 48(21)

Philoctetes Ismene Lada-Richards

Deianeira deliberates: precipitate decision-making and Trachiniae 69(30)

Edith Hall

PART TWO OEDIPUS AND THE PLAY OF MEANING

Inconclusive conclusion: the ending(s) of Oedipus Tyrannus 99(20)

Peter Burian

The third stasimon of Oedipus at Colonus 119(15)

Chris Carey

The logic of the unexpected: semantic diversion in Sophocles, Yeats (and Virgil) 134(24)

Michael Silk

The French Oedipus of the inter-war period 158(21)

Fiona Macintosh

PART THREE CONSTRUCTING TRAGIC TRADITIONS

Theoretical views of Athenian tragedy in the fifth century BC 179(29)

Kostas Valakas

Athens and Delphi in Aeschylus' 208(24)

Oresteia Angus Bowie

Feminized males in Bacchae: the importance of discrimination 232(19)

Richard Buxton

Hector's helmet glinting in a fourth-century tragedy 251(13)

Oliver Taplin

Seeing a Roman tragedy through Greek eyes: Shakespeare's 264(25)

Julius Caesar Christopher
Bibliography 289(28)
Index 317