Volume 13, Number 9 · November 20, 1969
It's a Tragedy
By Francis Fergusson
Tragedy and Philosophy
by Walter Kaufmann
Doubleday, 363 pp., $6.95
The Identity of Oedipus the King
by Alastair Cameron
New York University, 165 pp., $6.95
Reality and the Heroic Pattern
by David Grene
University of Chicago, 169 pp., $5.00
These books are all concerned with classic drama and its meaning for us, and therefore could be reviewed at great length if one tried to deal with the countless questions they raise. They all treat Sophocles, but except for that they have little in common.
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