Sophocles Bibliography
 

 

 

                                                   BIBLIOGRAPHY

Armstrong, D., "Sophocles' Trachiniae 559ff.," BICS 33 (1986) 101-2.
Bates, W. N. Sophocles: Poet and Dramatist (U of Penn 1940).
Blundell, M.W. Helping Friends and Harming Enemies: 
                        A Study in Sophocles and Greek Ethics 
(1989)
Bowra, C. M. Sophoclean Tragedy (Oxford, 1944)
Calder III, W.M., "The Protagonist of Sophocles' Antigone," 
   Arethusa 4.1 (1971 49) [cf. A. D. Fitton Brown, "A Reply," Arethusa 4 (1971) 52-54]

Dodds, E.R. "On Misunderstanding the Oedipus Rex,"  
    Oxford Readings in Greek Tragedy, ed. Segal, E. (Oxford, 1983)
Edmunds, L. Oedipus: The ancient Legend and its Later Analogues  (1985)
Falk, Eugene H. Renunciation as a Tragic Focus (Minneapolis, 1954)
Gardiner, C.P. The Sophoclean Chorus  (1987)
Gellie, G. Sophocles: A Reading  (1972)
Jost, L.J., "Antigone's Engagement: A Theme Delayed," LCM (1983) 8-9.
Kamerbeek, J. C.,  The plays of Sophocles;  (Leiden, E.J. Brill 1984) [commentaries.].

Kirkwood, G. M. A Study of Sophoclean Drama (Cornell UP 1958)
Kitto, H. D. F. Sophocles: Dramatist and Philosopher (London 1958)
Kitzinger, R.,  "Why Mourning Becomes Electra," ClAnt 10 (1991) 298-327
Knox, B. The Heroic Temper  (1964)
Knox, B. Oedipus at Thebes  (1971)
Lloyd-Jones, Sophocles Fragments  (Harvard UP 1996) PA4413.Y9
Mullahy, Patrick. Oedipus, Myth and Complex (NY 1948). 
    [A review of psychoanalytic theory based on the Oedipus trilogy].
Pound, Ezra (tr),  Women of Trachis, (London, N. Spearman 1956)
   [translation, into colloquial 1950's English].
Reinhardt, Karl. Sophocles. tr. Hazel & David Harvey. [Intro. by Hugh Lloyd-Jones]. 
   (Harper & Row / Barnes & Noble, 1979) 
Rudnytsky, P. Freud and Oedipus (New York, 1987)
Scodel, R. Sophocles  (1984)
Seaford, R.,  "The Destruction of Limits in Sophocles' Electra," CQ 32 (1985) 315-23
Seale, David, Vision and Stagecraft in Sophocles  (Univ of Chicago Pr 1982) 
Segal, Charles,  Tragedy and Civilization: An Interpretation of Sophocles  (1981)
___________, Oedipus Tyrranus: Tragic Heroism and the Limits of Knowledge 
    (New York, 1993) 
Segal, Charles,  "Antigone: Death and Love, Hades and Dionysus," in 
   Oxford Readings in Greek Tragedy, ed. by E. Segal (1983) 167-176.
Segal, Charles,  Sophocles' Tragic World, (Cambridge, MA 1995)

Sheppard, J. T.,  Aeschylus and Sophocles: Their Work and Influence 
    in Our Debt to Greece and Rome (NY, Cooper Square Pub 1963).
Sheppard, J.T., Aeschylus & Sophocles  (Ares 1963)  Sem Libr  PA3829.S45
Sorum, C.E., "The Family in Sophocles' Antigone and Electra," CW 75 (1982) 201-211.
Sorum, C.E., "Monsters and the Family: the Exodos of Sophocles' Trachiniae," GRBS 19 (1978) 59-73.
Tyrrell, Wm. Blake & Larry J. Bennett, Recapturing Sophocles' Antigone
   (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield 1998)

Vernant, J.P. "Ambiguity and Reversal. On the enigmatic structure of Oedipus Rex," 
    in Tragedy and Myth in Ancient Greece, Vernant, J.P. and Vidal-Naquet, P. (Sussex, 1981)
Waldock, C. H. Sophocles the Dramatist (Cambridge 1951)
Webster, T. B. L. An Introduction to Sophocles (Oxford 1936)
Whitman, C. H. Sophocles; A Study of Heroic Humanism (Cambridge 1951)
Wiersma, S.,  "Women in Sophocles," Mnemosyne 37 (1984) 25-55

Wilson, Edmund. The Wound and the Bow (New York 1929) 
    [Seven studies in literature, the last of which is of Sophocles' Philoctetes
    An interesting reappraisal of the play showing its relationship to other 
    Sophoclean works and to modern psychology and philosophy].
Wiltshire, S..F., "Antigone's Disobedience," Arethusa 9 (1976) 29-36.
Winnington-Ingram, R.P., "Sophocles and Women," in 
   Entretiens sur l'antiquité classique
. Fondation Hardt 29 (1982) 233-257.

Winnington-Ingram, R.P. Sophocles: An Interpretation (1980)
Woodard, T., "The Electra of Sophocles," in Sophocles, T. Woodard ed., (NJ 1966) 125-45 
   [one of few articles to focus on Electra herself]
Woodard, T. M.,  (ed) Sophocles  (Prentice-Hall 1966) [a collection of critical essays], 
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