Linked by their common setting in Thebes, Antigone,Oedipus the King, and Oedipus at Colonus stand at the fountainhead of world drama. This volume presents a new, and accurate yet poetic and playable translation by playwright Don Taylor, who has also directed plays for a BBC-TV production.

SERIES PREFACE, INTRODUCTION, ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, Letter Describing the Performance of Oedipus Rex at Vicenza in 1585, Oedipus at Vicenza and Paris: Two Stages in a Saga, From Preface to Oedipus, Letters on Oedipus, Letter III: Containing the Critique of the Oedipus of Sophocles, Remarks upon Oedipus, What Lies behind the Notes: The Translations of the Antigone of Sophocles in the 18th Century, Preface: The Oedipus Tyrannus of Sophocles, Preface: The Tragedies of Sophocles; Oedipus, King of Thebes, From Laokoon, From Kritische Walder: Erstes Waldchen, Holderlin's Translations, Sophocles and Holderlin, The Bride of Messina, Life and Political Character of Sophocles-Character of His Different Tragedies, From The Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret, On the Irony of Sophocles, Lecture XXVIII, The Oedipus Complex, Chapter 10 of From Sophocles to Sartre, The Descendants of Labdacus in the Theatrical Works of Jean Cocteau, Ancient Tragedy on the Modern Stage