James C. Hogan introduces each play by highlighting specific and interpretive problems relevant to that play before turning to a line-by-line analysis. The line analysis is comprehensive, ranging from the meanings of words and phrases that pertain to a variety of Greek ideas and institutions to metaphor and imagery specific to each play as well as plots and borrowings from earlier poetry, styles, and characterizations.
Along with his examination of the seven extant plays of Sophocles in English translations, Hogan provides a general introduction to the theatre in Sophocles time, discussing staging, the conventions of the Greek theatre, the text of the plays, and mythology and religion."
- ISBN10 080931665X
- ISBN13 9780809316656
- Publish Date 29 March 1991
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 28 June 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Southern Illinois University Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 400
- Language English