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Three Theban
Plays
ISBN: 1-84022-144-5
Author : Sophocles
Total Pages: 224
Price: £3.99
Antigone, Oedipus the Tyrant &
Oedipus at Colonus
Translated,with an
Introduction and Notes by Jamey Hecht
The story of
Oedipus has captured the human imagination as few others. It
is the story of a man fated to kill his father and marry his
mother, a man who by a cruel irony brings these things to pass
by his very efforts to avoid them. But these plays are not
about fate, and not about irony. They are about character,
choice and consequence. In Antigone we see a woman who
will defy human law, and die for it, rather than transgress
the eternal, unwritten laws of the gods. Oedipus the
Tyrant is the story of a ruler destroyed by those
qualities - pride, determination and belief in his own
abilities - which made him ruler in the first place. Finally,
in Oedipus at Colonus, written late in Sophocles' life,
the aged and blinded king achieves a personal reconciliation,
but at a cost - a son who will die in battle against his
country, and a daughter who will die burying her brother.
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