Hopefully it’s still worth reading. The conceit of Graney’s play is that each of the Sophocles plays revolves around a sickness or wound of some sort. Thus: Oedipus’s land is cursed with ...

The three genres of drama were comedy, satyr plays, and most important of all ... The three great playwrights of tragedy were Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. Aristotle argued that tragedy ...

He left a number of important plays that still survive today, including The Persians and The Oresteia. His mantle was taken up by the playwrights Sophocles, who wrote Antigone, Oedipus at Colonus ...

And how far do modern ideas about tragedy, derived from Aristotle, apply to Sophocles’ plays? They then look in more detail at Oedipus Tyrannos and Antigone and what the plays have to say about agency ...