The Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus - Sophocles Sjaak Commandeur Weaving together soliloquies from the

Weaving together soliloquies from the novel's six characters

Arjaan van Nimwegen en Orsolya Réthelyi vertaalden samen een belangrijk deel van het werk van deze grote Europese dichter

Tijdens hun lange gesprekken vertelt ze hem over een door muren omsloten stad

waar een innige vriendschap ontstaat met Isabella Baxter

’ zegt Berthold na de plechtigheid

The Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus - Sophocles Sjaak Commandeur Weaving together soliloquies from theCollected here are Antigone, Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus, in a translation by Robert Fagles which retains all of Sophocles' lucidity and power: the cut and thrust of his dialogue, his ironic edge, the surge and majesty of his choruses and, above all, the agonies and triumphs of his characters. Oedipus in exile, searching for his identity, desperately trying to avoid his fate, seeking the truth of his origins and achieving immortality; his