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	Three Theban plays - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The so-called three Theban plays, or the Oedipus cycle, written by Greek dramatist Sophocles in the 5th century BCE, follow the tragic downfall of the mythical king Oedipus of Thebes and his descendants.
		Often mistakenly believed to be a trilogy, the plays were written across forty years of Sophocles' career and were not composed in chronological order with Antigone written first (in fact the only surviving Greek trilogy is the Oresteia of Aeschylus).
		However, because the plays were not produced at the same time, these inconsistencies were not important.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Three_Theban_plays (261 words)

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		Both plays begin with providing the audience with the history and the consequences of certain situations that the characters were involved in.
		Many have argued with no conclusion of who the real tragic hero of the play is. Sophocles might’ve done this purposely in the play to keep the audience on their toes.
		Antigone was actually the earliest of the plays Sophocles devoted to the Theban cycle of myths.
	www.lycos.com /info/antigone--plays.html (479 words)

	General Education Literature Program in the Department of English, The University of Iowa
		The play explores such issues as the relationship between medical researchers and their patients; the ethics of experimentation; the relationship between a professor, her research, and her students; the power of literature to confront difficult emotions; and the process of coming to terms with death.
		The play explores Faustus’ slapstick use of his satanic wizardry, but the play’s power originates from his terror of damnation and his desire to be saved—through what might be his stubbornness, his pride, or an insufficient faith in God’s grace.
		These four Williams plays showcase his lyricism and, as in his more famous works, explore the secret lives of men and women who, in the face of repressive societies, are willing to suffer destruction if needed in order to follow their passion, erotic desires, and own inimitable visions of individuality.
	www.english.uiowa.edu /gel/books/annotations_plays.html (2164 words)

	Greek Drama
		Three types of drama were composed in Athens: tragedy, comedy, and satyr plays, the latter of which seemed not to be taken quite as seriously, at least during the Greek Enlightenment (450-400).
		The choruses are not simply interludes, but often vital for understanding the play; the chorus is not simply a spectator or commentator, but often a direct participant in the action.
		In the early plays of Aeschylus there were only two actors; by about 450 B.C., a third had been added; all were men, taking several parts each if necessary.
	www.wsu.edu:8080 /~dee/GREECE/DRAMA.HTM (797 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2006.02.43
		Robert Bagg's translation of Sophocles' Theban plays is one of those felicitous renderings of Greek tragedy in which, for the most part, faithfulness to the ancient text meets poetic phrasing and meticulousness of image.
		The task of rendering Sophocles' Theban plays in an English idiom not unfitted for living speech becomes even more challenging, in view of numerous spare and vigorous renditions that continue to appear in the contemporary competitive market, at a pace that readers find hard to keep up with.
		Correspondingly, earlier in the same play, B shows an admirable sense of rhythm in the rendition of the lyric dialogue between Oedipus and the chorus (510-548).
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2006/2006-02-43.html (2043 words)

	Amazon.de: The Three Theban Plays: Antigon/Oedipus the King/Oedipus at Colonus: "Antigone","Oedipus the King","Oedipus ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		These are uniquely remarkable plays that have obviously stood the test of time (2,500 years and counting) though, sadly, are often muddled in the mythology of their source.
		They are based on Theban myths already old when Sophocles adapted them and are unified only in their focus on the family of Oedipus, and in their temporal economy: there is no legendary "cycle".
		Through the 19th century the performance of these plays (only seven of an estimated 120 survive) was banned in England on moral grounds: it is fascinating to behold the muddy turn of the cultural wheel, and measure unstoppable genius against fashion.
	www.amazon.de /exec/obidos/ASIN/0140444254/galenicom06-21 (696 words)

	Books : Ten Plays by Euripides (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Criticized by the conservatives of his time for introducing shabby heroes and immoral women into his plays, his plays were ridiculed by Aristophanes in "The Frogs." His plays exhibited his iconoclastic, rationalizing attitude toward the ancient myths that were the subject matter for Greek drama.
		Usually the play begins with a monologue that provides the necessary exposition regarding the situation with which the characters are confronted.
		His plays tend to begin with a single character delivering a soliloquy that introduces the background of the story, and he makes frequent use of a "deus ex machina" at the end in order to set things right, or as right as they can be.
	www.cosyreading.info /0553213636/Ten_Plays_by_Euripides.shtml (1570 words)

	Antigone
		Throughout the play, he repeatedly denounces her as much for her gender as for her defiance of his decree forbidding the burial of Antigone's brother.
		The Oedipus series of plays (Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone) is not technically a trilogy (although sometimes referred to as one) because the plays were written years apart as single units.
		This type of dramatic irony occurs often in Sophocles' plays, allowing the audience to become engrossed with a character's response to a situation rather than the eventual outcome of the situation.
	www.cummingsstudyguides.net /antigone.html (4186 words)

	The Theban Plays
		A compliation of the three plays of Sophocles’; Oidipous Cycle: Antigone, King Oidipous and Oidipous at Colonus.
		The explanatory notes are aimed at those approaching this play, and perhaps all ancient Greek literature, for the first time.
		The translation and notes for all three plays are indebted to Jebb’s great work,2 and to a lesser extent to Kamerbeek’s more recent commentaries.
	www.pullins.com /Books/00374ThebPlaysBlon.htm (721 words)

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		Sophocles is the first tragedian known to have written what modern scholars have termed unconnected trilogies, that is, sets of three tragedies whose plots do not revolve around a single family's saga or some sort of lore drawn from the same arc in the cycle of Greek myth.
		To judge from play titles and fragments alone, it seems safe to infer, however, that tragedies of Sophocles were at best connected thematically to one another in trilogies.
		The reconstructed text was created by employing the fragments of the play from Oxyrhynchus, using the model of Euripides' Cyclops (the only fully surviving satyr drama) for style, tone and characterisation, and reworking material from the Homeric Hymn to Hermes.
	www.lycos.com /info/sophocles--tragedies.html (689 words)

	Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus
		Amazon.com: Aristotle called "Oedipus The King," the second-written of the three Theban plays written by Sophocles, the masterpiece of the whole of Greek theater.
		The three plays--"Antigone," "Oedipus the King," and "Oedipus at Colonus"--are not strictly a trilogy, but all are based on the Theban myths that were old even in Sophocles' time.
	isbn.nu /0195010590 (411 words)

	SparkNotes: The Oedipus Plays: Themes, Motifs & Symbols
		Almost every character who dies in the three Theban plays does so at his or her own hand (or own will, as is the case in Oedipus at Colonus).
		Overall, the plays seem to say that human beings can demonstrate remarkable powers of intellectual penetration and insight, and that they have a great capacity for knowledge, but that even the smartest human being is liable to error, that the human capability for knowledge is ultimately quite limited and unreliable.
		This crossroads is referred to a number of times during the play, and it symbolizes the crucial moment, long before the events of the play, when Oedipus began to fulfill the dreadful prophecy that he would murder his father and marry his mother.
	www.sparknotes.com /drama/oedipus/themes.html (1689 words)

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		The general public believes in the Theban trilogy, and wants all three plays together; therefore they are more likely to turn to the Penguin or Methuen editions.
		Knox is also clearly interested in different aspects of the plays to H.; where, as noted, H. mainly elucidates points of translation and mythology, Knox is far more interested in how the various choral odes advance Sophocles' tale, and in the psychology of the characters.
		To be fair, however, it might well be that the dense level of commentary provided by Knox is offputting to the generally-interested reader who lacks academic background either in the Classics or in drama.
	www.infomotions.com /serials/bmcr/bmcr-9410-keen-sophocles.txt (1304 words)

	Course Syllabus and Requirements (Fall 2006)
		Sophocles, Antigone and Oedipus the King, in The Three Theban Plays.
		In addition, there will be three paper assignments, and you may choose the best two grades you receive on papers.
		In addition to the three short paper assignments there will be a comprehensive final exam, scheduled at the beginning of exam week (December 14th).
	honors.umd.edu /HONR218C/syllabus.html (876 words)

	Films for the Humanities and Sciences - Sophocles: The Theban Plays
		Although the three plays carry forward the development of one legend, The Theban Plays were not written to be performed as a group and are therefore not a trilogy in the sense of The Oresteia.
		It is no mean task to capture for modern audiences the excitement that these plays held for the original Greek audiences, distanced for us as they are by 2,500 years of reverence and the conventions of classical Greek drama.
		In this superb version this task has been accomplished by means of an aggressively contemporary translation that remains true to the text; setting the plays in the past yet not the distant past, not any pinpointable past; and, dispensing with masks, using the finest classical British actors.
	www.films.com /id/1960/Sophocles_The_Theban_Plays.htm (385 words)

	bookideas.com: The Three Theban Plays by Sophocles .
		Which is where the story generally ends, but in Sophocles' trilogy of plays, we find out what happens next, as Oedipus wanders the world, tainted for his sins, but in some way made holy by his blinding and punishment.
		And I found the plays (Oedipus the King, Antigone and Oedipus at Colonus) to be surprisingly moving.
		For all the stereotyping of Greek characters as two-dimensional, the plays are moving characterizations, and reading all three together provides a satisfying arc to the story that leaves no loose threads dangling.
	www.bookideas.com /reviews/index.cfm?fuseaction=displayReview&id=609 (746 words)

	Sophocles (c.495-406 BC) : Library of Congress Citations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Control No.: 42019142 //r956 Title: Fifteen Greek plays, translated into English by Gilbert Murray, Benjamin Bickley Rogers and others; with an introduction, and a supplement from the 'Poetics' of Aristotle, by Lane Cooper.
		The plays of Euripides, translated into English prose by E. Coleridge.--The plays of Aristophanes, translated into English verse by B. Rogers.
		Theban plays Notes: His The Theban plays, 1967.
	www.mala.bc.ca /~mcneil/cit/citlcsoph.htm (1122 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		However, a translation by Professor Trypanis, who is not only a distinguished Classical scholar but also a much admired poet, is an event to be welcomed by both students of the Classics and lovers of literature and the stage.
		These translations were originally commissioned by the BBC and have been broadcast and acted on stage several times on both sides of the Atlantic.
		Professor Trypanis has written a new introduction to this volume in which he discusses Sophocles' skill in characterisation, his style and poetry, and the place of the three plays in literary history.
	www.arisandphillips.com /ap/Soph.Plays.html (138 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Three Theban Plays: "Antigone","Oedipus the King","Oedipus at Colonus" (Classics): Books: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Sophocles' Theban plays: "Antigone", "Oedipus the King" and "Oedipus at Colonus".
		Antigone may be a difficult character to sympathise with or understand, but the poetry of the drama excels even that of Oedipus (especially the eerie, haunting 'hymn to Dionysus').
		The play has a ending to compare with some of the goriest tv murders, as well as having a rather distasteful theme of unwitting incest.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Three-Theban-Plays-Antigone-Classics/dp/0140444254 (981 words)

	Three plays : Our town, The skin of our … by Thornton Wilder \| LibraryThing
		Three plays : Our town, The skin of our … by Thornton Wilder
		A view from the bridge : a play in two acts with a new introd by Arthur Miller
		Endgame : a play in one act by Samuel Beckett
	www.librarything.com /work.php?book=4888178 (433 words)

	Oedipus at Colonus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the timeline of the plays, the events of Oedipus at Colonus occur after Oedipus the King and before Antigone.
		Defeated by the Spartans, the city was placed under the rule of the Thirty Tyrants, and the citizens who opposed their rule were exiled or executed.
		While the other two plays about Oedipus often bring up the question of a person's moral responsibility for their destiny, and whether it is possible to rebel against destiny, Oedipus at Colonus is the only one to address it explicitly.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oedipus_at_Colonus (1679 words)

	The Theban Plays of Sophocles; Oedipus/Antigone
		He argues in his introduction to Antigone that there is a crucial moment in the play when, as Antigone is taken off to her entombment, she says she would not have broken the law to bury a child or husband in the way she did it to bury Polynices.
		She argues all the way through the play that she has an obligation to bury her brother under the circumstances (that she cannot have any more brothers, since all three of them are dead, as are her parents -- one of her brothers, of course, being also one of her parents).
		And remember, this play was written at a time long before much of our currently accepted morality was discovered or figured out, and even today, we are still discovering (and sometimes inventing bad) principles which we think are moral duties.
	www.akat.com /Oedipus.html (3569 words)

	The Three Theban Plays free essays
		The Three Theban Plays Reading through the Odyssey and the writings of Sophocles I explored many new ideas, however when I trace all of these ideas back to there simplest root I discovered that they all seemed to branch from the topic of destiny and fate.
		Each of these lessons is valuable and although these plays are approximately two thousand five hundred years old they still manage to teach lessons that apply to life in present day.
		In Sophocles’ first Theban play, Oedipus the King, there are many lessons that are embodied by the characters, the plot and the theme.
	www.needfreeessays.com /viewpaper/7762.html (288 words)

	Seven Against Thebes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The seven gates of Thebes were defended by seven Theban champions, including one gate, which Eteocles chose to defend himself.
		All three of Ancient Greece's greatest tragic dramatists, Aeschylus, Euripides, and Sophocles, used the story of Thebes and the family of Oedipus as the basis for plays.
		That the play Seven Against Thebes captured first prize for its playwright, Aeschylus, at its premier performance at the 467 B.C. Athenian drama festival.
	www.messidor.com /numbers/seven/7thebes.htm (437 words)

	Books : The Three Theban Plays (Penguin Classics)
		A very nice feature of this edition are the fine introductions to the plays and a short discusion of the history of the texts.
		One can tell that this play was written at a different time by Sophocles because the characters have changed very much.
		The essays help put the plays in context, which is crucial to understanding, by explaining the salient facts of Greek drama, the mythological background of the Oedipus story, and whatever controversy the plays might have engendered.
	www.cosyreading.info /0140444254/The_Three_Theban_Plays.shtml (1324 words)

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