The story of King Lear seems to fill in the blank space separating the end of Oedipus Tyrannus and the beginning of Oedipus at Colonus. In both Oedipus at Colon

This book investigates the question of the relations between literature and politics in democratic modernity. It makes connections between Shakespeare's tragedy

King Oedipus/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone Three towering works of Greek tragedy depicting the inexorable downfall of a doomed royal dynasty The legends surroundi

Includes the life of Sophocles, introduction and background of Greek tragedy, the mythological background, and Aristotle on tragedy.