Download or read book Sophocles: Plays: Oedipus Tyrannus written by Sophocles and published by Bristol Classical Press. This book was released on 2004-02-26 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is one of the seven plays of Sophocles in the full editions by R.C. Jebb, all of which will be reissued under the BCP imprint. They have occasionally been reprinted but never before in affordable paperback versions. In this set, each volume contains a foreword by P.E. Easterling, concerned with Jebb and his contribution to Sophoclean scholarship; there follows an introduction by a noted Sophoclean scholar dealing with Jebb's treatment of the individual play and its value for - and contrast with - subsequent interpretations, for which a select bibliography is included.