SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MODERN BOOKS IN ENGLISH

I. The following list includes only books of general interest which are devoted exclusively to Sophocles, or those which have specific chapters that involve the Theban Plays.

Adams, S. M. Sophocles the Playwright. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1957.
Ahl, Frederick. Sophocles’ Oedipus: Evidence and Self-Conviction. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1991.
Blundell, Mary Whitlock. Helping Friends and Harming Enemies: A Study in Sophocles and Greek Ethics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Bowra, Sir Maurice. Suphoclean Tragedy. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1944.
Budelmann, Felix. The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Cummunication, and Involvement. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Bushnell, Rebecca W. Prophesying Tragedy: Sign and Voice in Sophocles’ Theban Plays. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.
Cameron, Alister. The Identity of Oedipus the King: Five Essays on the Oedipus Tyrannus. New York: New York University Press; London: University of London Press, 1968.
Edmunds, Lowell. Oedipus: The Ancient Legend and Its Later Analogues. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985.
Fergusson, Francis. The Idea of a Theater: A Study of Ten Plays, The Art of Drama in Changing Perspective (Chapter 1). Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1949; reprinted, New York: Doubleday, 1953.
Gellie, G. H. Sophocles: A Reading. Carlton, Victoria: Melbourne University Press, 1972.
Goheen, R. F. The Imagery of Sophocles’ Antigone: A Study of Poetic Language and Structure. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1951.
Goldhill, Simon. Reading Greek Tragedy. Cambridge, 1986.
Griffin, Jasper, ed. Sophocles Revisited: Essays Presented to Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Jones, John. On Aristotle and Greek Tragedy (Section 3, Chapters 5 and 6). New York: Oxford University Press; London: Chatto and Windus, 1962; reprinted, New York: Oxford University Press, 1968.
Kirkwood, G. M. A Study of Sophoclean Drama. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1958.
Kitto, H. D. F. Form and Meaning in Drama: A Study of Six Greek Plays and of Hamlet (Chapter 5). 2nd ed. London: Methuen, 1964; New York: Barnes and Noble, 1968.
_____. Greek Tragedy: A Literary Study. 2nd ed. New York: Doubleday, 1964; 3rd ed. London: Methuen, 1966.
_____. Sophocles, Dramatist and Philosopher. London: Oxford University Press, 1958.
Knox, B. M. W. The Heroic Temper: Studies in Sophoclean Tragedy. Sather Classical Lectures, Vol. 35. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1964.
_____. Oedipus at Thebes: Sophocles’ Tragic Hero and His Time. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1957; 2nd ed., 1966; reissued 1998.
Lattimore, Richmond. The Poetry of Greek Tragedy (Chapter 4). Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1958; reprinted, New York: Harper and Row, 1966.
Lloyd-Jones, Sir Hugh. The Justice of Zeus (Chapter 5). Sather Classical Lectures, Vol. 41. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1971.
Mueller, Martin. Children of Oedipus and Other Essays on the Imitation of Greek Tragedy, 1550-1800 (Chapter 4). Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press, 1980.
Nussbaum, Martha. The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy (Chapter 3). Cambridge, England, and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
O’Brien, M. J., ed. Twentieth-Century Interpretations of Oedipus Rex. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1968.
Pucci, Pietro. Oedipus and the Fabrication of the Father: Oedipus Tyrannus in Modern Criticism and Philosophy. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.
Reinhardt, Karl. Sophokles. Frankfurt: Klostermann, 1933; English trs. D. and H. Harvey, New York: Barnes and Noble, 1978.
Scodel, Ruth. Sophocles. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1984.
Scott, William C. Musical Design in Sophoclean Theater. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England for Dartmouth College, 1996.
Seale, David. Vision and Stagecraft in Sophocles. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982.
Segal, Charles. Oedipus Tyrannus: Tragic Heroism and the Limits of Knowledge. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1993.
_____. Sophocles’ Tragic World: Divinity, Nature, Society. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995.
_____. Tragedy and Civilization: An Interpretation of Sophocles. Martin Classical Lectures, Vol. 26. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1981.
Stanford, W. B. Ambiguity in Greek Literature: Studies in Theory and Practice (Chapter 11). Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1939; reprinted, New York: Johnson Reprint, 1972.
Steiner, George. Antigones. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984.
Vernant, Jean-Pierre, and Pierre Vidal-Naquet. Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece, trs. Janet Lloyd. New York, 1988.
Waldock, A. J. A. Sophocles the Dramatist. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1951.
Webster, T. B. L. An Introduction to Sophocles. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1936; 2nd ed., London: Methuen, 1969.
Whitman, C. H. Sophocles: A Study of Heroic Humanism. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1951.
Wilkins, John, and Matthew Macleod. Sophocles: Antigone & Oedipus the King—A Companion to the Penguin Translation of Robert Fagles. London: Bristol Classical Press, 1987.
Winnington-Ingram, R. P. Sophocles: An Interpretation. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1980.
Woodard, T. M., ed. Sophocles: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1966.

II. Selected general treatments of Greek tragedy.

Easterling, P. E., ed. The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Else, Gerald F. The Origin and Early Form of Greek Tragedy. Martin Classical Lectures, Vol. 20. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1965.
Knox, B. M. W. Word and Action: Essays on the Ancient Theater. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979.
Kott, Jan. The Eating of the Gods: An Interpretation of Greek Tragedy. New York: Random House, 1973.
Rehm, Rush. Greek Tragic Theatre. London and New York: Routledge, 1992.
Steiner, George. The Death of Tragedy. New York: Alfred A. Knopf; London: Faber and Faber, 1961.
Taplin, Oliver. Greek Tragedy in Action. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press; London: Methuen, 1978.
Vickers, Brian. Towards Greek Tragedy: Drama, Myth, Society. London: Longman, 1973.
Walcot, Peter. Greek Drama in Its Theatrical and Social Context. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1976.
Winkler, John J., and Froma Zeitlin, eds. Nothing to Do with Dionysus? Athenian Drama in Its Social Context. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990.