Translated and edited by Peter D. Arnott, this classic and highly popular edition contains two essential plays in the development of Greek tragedy-Oedipus the King and Antigone-for performance and study. The editor's introduction contains a brief biography of the playwright and a description of Greek theater. Also included are a list of principal dates in the life of Sophocles and a bibliography.

Crofts Classics Series
General Editor: Samuel H. Beer, Harvard University

Aristophanes: The Birds, and Plautus: The Brothers Menaechmus. Trans. and ed. Peter D. Arnott

Aristophanes: The Clouds, and Plautus: The Pot of Gold. Trans. and ed. Peter D. Arnott

Congreve: The Way of the World. Ed. Henry Ten Eyck Perry

Corneille: Le Cid. Ed. John C. Lapp

Gay: The Beggar's Opera and Companion Pieces. Ed. C. F. Burgess

Ibsen: Ghosts, and Strindberg: Miss Julia. Trans. and ed. Thaddeus L. Thorp

Ibsen: Hedda Gabler. Trans. and ed. Alan S. Downer

Ibsen: The Wild Duck. Trans. and ed. Kai Jurgensen and Robert Schenkkan

Jonson: Volpone, or The Fox. Ed. Jonas A. Barish

Racine: Phaedra. Trans. and ed. Oreste F. Pucciani

Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus and Electra. Trans. and ed. Peter D. Arnott

Sophocles: Oedipus the King and Antigone. Trans. and ed. Peter D. Arnott

Strindberg: Ghost Sonata, and Ibsen: When We Dead Awaken Trans. and ed. Thaddeus L. Thorp

Synge: The Playboy of the Western World and Riders to the Sea. Ed. William E. Hart

Webster: The Duchess of Malfi. Ed. Fred B. Millett

See inside covers for a complete list of Crofts Classics titles.