Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone

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This volume collects the three Sophoclean plays most central to the Western dramatic canon: the Oedipus cycle and Antigone. Oedipus the King gave Aristotle his paradigm of perfect tragedy; Antigone gave the tradition its archetypal conflict between individual conscience and state authority — a drama that has been produced in every century since as commentary on political oppression. The Oedipus at Colonus, Sophocles' last play, shows the blind Oedipus achieving a mysterious spiritual resolution. Storr's translation preserves the structure and weight of the originals in serviceable English verse. Reading these three plays in sequence offers an incomparable introduction to the Greek tragic imagination.