Dec 27, 2009

Oedipus Rex | Bibliography and Further Reading

Sources
Nietzsche, Friedrich. The Birth of Tragedy. Macmillan, 1907.

Further Reading
Aristotle. The Poetics. Translated by W. Hamilton Fyfe. London: Heinemann, 1927. Aristotle's important discussion of effective tragic form includes many references to the exemplarity of Sophocles's play, and provides a useful understanding of classical poetic theory.

Bates, William Nickerson Sophocles, Poet and Dramatist. London: Oxford University Press, 1940. In a chapter on Oedipus, Bates summarizes the plot and offers general, laudatory...