Oedipus, Myth and Theatre Bibliography

Accardi, B. et al. (1991) Recent Studies in Myths and Literature, 1970-1990 An Annotated Bibliography. New York, Greenwood Press.

Ahl, F.M. (1991) Sophocles' Oedipus: Evidence and Self-Conviction. Ithaca NY, Cornell UP.

Al-Hakim, T (1981) Plays, Perfaces & Postscripts of Tawfiq Al-Hakim, Volume One – Theater of the Mind  (translated by Hutchins, W.). Washington, Three Continents Press.

Allentuch, H. R. (1994) Is Corneille’s Oedipe Oedipal? in The French Review.  Volume 67, No. 4 March 1994 pp. 571-579

Anon., Perseus Encyclopedia: Sophocles [online], available from http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0004:id%3Dsophocles-3 (Accessed 14th February 2005)

Aristophanes, The Clouds in Mcleish, K. trans. (1993) Aristophanes: Plays Two (Methuen, 1993)

Aston, E. & Savona, G (1991) Theatre as a Sign-System. (London, Routledge)

Auslander, P. (1984) Holy Theatre and Catharsis in Theatre Research International. Part 9:1, pp. 16-29

Aylen, L. (1964) Greek Tragedy and the Modern World. Methuen

Beer, D. G. (1990) The Riddle of the Sphinx and the Staging of  Oedipus Rex in Essays in Theatre. Vol. 8, No. 2, May 1990, pp. 107-20

Belli, Angela (1969) Ancient Greek Myths and Modern Drama: a Study in Continuity.  New York, New York University Press.

Berkoff, S. (1989) Greek in Decadence and other plays. London,Faber.

Berkoff, S. (1994) Greek(revised text)  in Plays One. London,Faber.

Berkoff, S. (2000) Plays Three. London, Faber.

Berkowitz, L. & Brunner, T. (1970) Oedipus Tyrannus. London, Norton.

Boheemen-Saaf, C. (1987) Between sacred and profane; narrative design and the logic of myth from Chaucer to Coover. Amsterdam, Rodopi.

Boyle, A.J. (1997) Tragic Seneca: An Essay in the Theatrical Tradition. London, Routledge.

Boyle, A.J. ed. (1983) Seneca Tragicus: Ramus Essays on Senecan Drama. Berwick, Aural Publications.

Brown. R.E. (1985) The Dryden and Lee Collaboration: Oedipus and The Duke of Guise in Restoration Studies in English Literary Culture 1660-1700. Part 9:1, Spring 1985. pp. 12-25

Burgess, A. (1972) Sophocles’ Oedipus the King. Minneapolis, Minnesota UP.

Cameron, A. (1968) The Identity of Oedipus the King. New York, New York UP.

Cave, T. (1989) Corneille, Oedipus, Racine in Rubin, D. L.& McKinley, M. B. (1989) Convergences: Rhetoric and Poetic in Seventeenth-Century France : Essays for Hugh M. Davidson. Columbus, Ohio State UP. pp. 82-100

Champagne, R. (1992) The Structuralists on Myth: An Introduction, Theorists of Myth; Vol. 6. New York: Garland Pub.

Cingano, E. (1992) The Death of Oedipus in the Epic Tradition in Phoenix Part 46, 1992, pp. 1-11.

Cocteau, Jean. The Infernal Machine translated by Bermel, A. (1963) in The Infernal Machine and other plays by Jean Cocteau. New York, James Laughlin. pp 7-96

Cohn, R (1991) Retreats from Realism in Recent English Drama. Cambridge, Cambridge, UP.

Connon, D.F. (1993) Folded Enternity: Time and the Mythic Dimension in Cocteau’s La Machine Infernale in Forum for Modern Language Studies. Jan 1993, Part 1, pp. 31-45

Cook, A. (1980)  Myth and Language. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press.

Corneille, P. (1659) Oedipe translated by Tetens, Kristen. (unpublished)

Corneille, P. (1659) Oedipe [Document électronique] available from http://visualiseur.bnf.fr/CadresFenetre?O=NUMM-88038&M=tdm&Y=Texte (accessed August 2004)

Costa, C.D.N. (ed) (1974) Seneca. London, Routledge.

Coupe, L. (1997) Myth. London, Routledge.

Davis, D.A. (1997) Oedipus Redivivus: Freud, Jung and Psychoanalysis [online] available from http://www.haverford.edu/psych/ddavis/jungfreu.html (accessed February 2000)

Dennis, J. (1693) The Impartial Critick: Or, Some Observations Upon A Late Book, Entitled, A Short View of Tragedy, Written by Mr. Rymer in Spingarn, J. (1963) Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century: Volume III – 1685-1700 (Oxford, Clarendon Press) pp.148-197

Detienne, M. (1979) The Greeks Aren't Like the Others. Cultures and Classics; Anthropology of Ancient Sources [online] Winter 2000, 1, 1. available from http://www.jhu.edu/cultures/detienne.html (accessed June 2003)

Detienne, M. (1986) The Creation of Mythology  trans. M. Cook. Chicago, University of Chicago Press.

Dodds, E.R. (1983) On misunderstanding Oedipus Rex, in Erich Segal, ed., Oxford Readings in Greek Tragedy (1983), pp. 177-88

Dove, R. (1999) The Darker Face of the Earth. London, Oberon Books.

Dryden, J. (1668) An essay of Dramatic Poesie  in Monk, S. & Maurer A. eds. (1971) The Works of John Dryden. Prose 1668-1691. (London, University of California Press)  pp. 2-81

Dryden, J. & Lee, N. (1678) Oedipus in Kallich, M. (1968) Oedipus: Myth and Drama. New York, Odyssey Press.

Dryden, John The Grounds of Criticism in Tradegy; Preface to Troilus and Cressida (1679) in English Verse Drama Full Text Database (Cambridge, Chadwyck-Healey. 1994)

Edmunds, L & Dundes, A. (1983) Oedipus: A Folklore Casebook. New York, Garland Publishing.

Edmunds, L. (1976) Oedipus in the Middle Ages. Antike und Abendland 25, 1976, pp. 140-155.

Edmunds, L. (1981) The Sphinx in the Oedipus Legend, Beiträge zur klassischen Philologie 127, Königstein/Ts.

Edmunds, L. (1985) Oedipus: The Ancient Legend and Its Later Analogues. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins UP.

Edmunds, Lowell (1990) Approaches to Greek Myth. Baltimore, London: Johns Hopkins UP.

Edmunds, L. (1991) Oedipus in the Twentieth Century: Principle Dates in Classical and Modern Literature. 1991, Volume 11:4, pp. 317-324 

Enekwe, O. (1984) Interview with Ola Rotimi in Okike. 1984, Part 25, pp. 36-42

Feynman, A. E. (1963) The Infernal Machine, Hamlet and Earnest Jones in Modern Drama Part 6, 1963 pp. 72-83

Fifield, W. (1974) Jean Cocteau. New York, Columbia UP.

Freiert, W. (1991) Timeless Oedipus: “The Primitive” in Three Modern Adaptations in Text and Presentation: The Journal of The Comparative Drama Conference. 1991 Volume 11, pp. 19-24

Fuhrmann, M. (1979) Myth as a recurrent theme in Greek Tragedy and Twentieth-Century Drama in

Amacher, R & Lange, V. eds. New perspectives in German literary criticism. Princeton, Princeton University Press.  pp. 295-319

Gannon, J. (1965) Literary Imitation in Renaissance Poetic in United College Journal. Hong Kong, University of Hong Kong Libraries, (Vol. 4, 1965. pp. 1-11)

Gellrich, M. Tragedy and Theory. Princeton, 1988

Gide, A. Oedipus translated by Russell, J. (1950) in Oedipus and Theseus. London, Secker & Warburg) pp. 9-62

Gould, E. (1981) Mythical Intentions in Modern Literature. New Jersey, Princeton UP.

Hartigan, K.V. (1986) Oedipus in France: Cocteau’s Mythic Strategy in La Machine Infernale in Classical and Modern Literature. Winter 1986, Volume 6:2, pp. 89-95

Henry, D and Walker, B (1983) The Oedipus of Seneca: An Imperial Tragedy in Boyle, Anthony James (ed.), Seneca Tragicus : RAMUS essays on Senecan drama (Berwick, Vic.: Aureal Publications, 1983) pp.128-139

Hodson, W. L  Theatricalism and Greek Myth in Gide, Cocteau and Giraudoux in Barnwell, H. T. et al. (1977) The Classical Tradition in French Literature. Essays Presented to R.C. Knight by Colleagues, Pupils and Friends. London, Grant & Cutler. pp. 229-37

Hoffmannasthal, H. Oedipus and the Sphinx translated by Schoenbohm, G in Kallich, M. (1968) Oedipus: Myth and Drama. New York, Odyssey Press. Pp. 139-260

Hofmiller, J (1930) Zeitgenossen translated by  Schoenbohm, G.  München, 1930 pp 284-288 in Kallich, M. (1968) Oedipus: Myth and Drama. New York, Odyssey Press. Pp. 337-340

Hughes, L. et al. Dryden with Variations: Three Prompt Books in Theatre Research International. Part 11.2 Summer 1986 pp. 91-105

Hughes, T. (1969) Seneca’s Oedipus. London, Faber.

Hughes, T. (1972) Seneca’s Oedipus. New York, Doubleday.

Hunter, G. K. (1974) Seneca and English Tragedy in Costa, C D N (ed), Seneca. London, Routledge.

Innes, C. D (1993) Avant-garde Theatre, 1892-1992. London, Routledge.

Jebb trans. (1933) The Oedipus Tyrannus of Sophocles; edited with introduction and notes. London, Cambridge University Press.

Johnson, A.C. (1982) Ola Rotimi: How Significant? in African Literature Today. 1982, Part 12, pp. 137-153

Kallich, M. (1968) Oedipus: Myth and Drama. New York, Odyssey Press.

Kallich, M. ed. (1968) Oedipus the King in Kallich, M. (1968) Oedipus: Myth and Drama. New York, Odyssey Press.

Kiefer, F. (1985) Senecan Influence: A Bibliographic Supplement in Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama. Part 28, 1985, pp. 129-142

Kushner, E. (1983) ‘Myth and Literature: The Example of Modern Drama’, Neohelicon: acta comparationis litterarum universarum, 10, 1983, pp. 41-53

Kushner, E. (2002) The Living Prism: Itineraries in Comparative Literature. McGill-Queen's University Press

Lambley, D. (1991) Not All Greek in Studies in Theatre Production. 1991, June, Part 3, pp. 17-41

Leadbeater, L.W. (1990) In Defence of Cocteau: Another View of La Machine Infernale in Classical and
Modern Literature. Winter 1990, Volume 10:2, pp. 113-125

Levi-Strauss, C. (1968) Structural Anthropology. London: Allen Lane.

Lindfors, B. ed. (1974) Dem-say: Interviews with Eight Nigerian Writers. Austin, Texas UP.

Liner notes to Turnage. M.A. Greek.  London, Decca, 1994. 440 368-2

Malinowski, B. (1992) Magic, Science and Religion and Other Essays. Waveland Press

Mason, E. liner notes to Igor Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex 1997. Compact disc. Decca. 400 001-2

McFarlene, I. D. Corneille’s Oedipe in Freeman, E. (ed) (1988) Myth and its Making in the French Theatre. London, Cambridge UP.

Millar, R. (1999) What Kind of Tragedy is Oedipus Rex Anyway? [online] available from http://dnausers.d-n-a.net/dnetrgoA/oedipus2.htm (accessed May 2001)

Miller, F. J. trans. (1968) Seneca in Nine Volumes: Volume VIII, Tragedies One. London, Heinemann.

Mills, David (1988) An Unfreudian Slip in Drama. 1988, Part 170, pp. 19-20

Mitchell, P.C. (1977) Voltaire’s Oedipe: Propaganda Versus Art in Barnwell, H. T. et al. (1977) The Classical Tradition in French Literature. Essays Presented to R.C. Knight by Colleagues, Pupils and Friends. London, Grant & Cutler.

Moddelmog, D. (1993) Readers and Mythic Signs: The Oedipus Myth in Twentieth Century Fiction. Illinois, Southern Illinois University

Motto, A and Clark J. (1988) Senecan Tragedy Amsterdam, Adolf M. Hakkert

Motto, A. and Clark, J. (1984) Grotesquerie Ancient and Modern: Seneca and Ted Hughes in Classical and Modern Literature.  1984, Autumn:5 Part 1, pp. 13-22

Mueller, M. (1980) Children of Oedipus and Other Essays on the Imitation of Greek Tragedy, 1550-1800. Toronto, University of Toronto Press.

Njoku, T (1984) The Influence of Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex on Rotimi’s The Gods are Not to Blame in Nigeria Magazine.1984, part 151, pp. 88-92

Ola, V.U. (1982) The Concept of Tragedy in Ola Rotimi’s The Gods are Not to Blame in Okike. 1982, Part 22, pp. 23-31

Pausanias, Description of Greece (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0160) 19 April 1999 [9.5.10 - 9.5.13]

Perseus Project, Life of Sophocles (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0004:id=sophocles-3) 20 June 2004

Poe, J. P. (1983) The Sinful Nature of the Protagonist of Seneca’s Oedipus in Boyle, Anthony James (ed.), Seneca Tragicus : RAMUS essays on Senecan drama (Berwick, Vic.: Aureal Publications, 1983) pp. 140-158

Porter, J. (2004) Sophocles’ Oedipus. [online] available from http://duke.usask.ca/~porterj/CourseNotes/Oed.html (accessed July 2004)

Raeburn, David, ‘Oedipus and the Riddle of the Sphinx’ in Shasha, T. & Stuttard, D. eds. (1996) Dionysus, Vol. 4: Oedipus the King. York, The Actors of Dionysus (pp. 2-6)

Reik, Theodor (1951) Oedipus and the Sphinx in Reik, Theodor, Dogma and compulsion: psychoanalytic studies of religion and myths New York: International Universities Press

Rey, William H. (1958) Spirit and Blood in Hofmannsthal’s Oedipus und die Sphinx in Kallich, M. (1968) Oedipus: Myth and Drama. New York, Odyssey Press. (pp.327-336)

Righter, W. (1975) Myth and Literature. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul.

Rotimi, O. (1971) The Gods are Not to Blame. London, Oxford University Press.

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San Juan, E., Jr (1965) The Significance of Andre Gide's Oedipus in Modern Drama, 1965, Volume 7. pp. 422-430.

Scullion, S. ‘Nothing to do with Dionysus: Tragedy Misconceived as Ritual’ in Classical Quarterly, 2002 Volume 52.1, pp. 102-137

Segal, C. (1986) Interpreting Greek tragedy - myth, poetry, text.  London, Cornell University Press.

Segal, C. (1993) Oedipus Tyrannus: Tragic Heroism and the Limits of Knowledge. New York, Twayne Publishers.

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Shasha, T. & Stuttard, D. eds. (1996) Dionysus, Vol. 4: Oedipus the King. York, The Actors of Dionysus.

Starkey, P. (1988) From the Ivory Tower: A Critical Analysis of Tawfiq Al-Hakim (St/ Anthony's Middle East Monographs, No 19). Ithaca Press.

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Stroup, T. B. (1976) "All Comes Clear at Last," but "the Readiness is All", Vol 10, No 1: Spring 1976. pp. 61-77

Taplin, O. (1991) Greek Tragedy in Action London, Routledge

Tonelli, F. (1983) Sopocles' Oedipus and the Tale of the Theatre. Ravenna, Longo Editore.

Turner, T. (1969) Oedipus: Time and Structure in Narrative Form in Forms of Symbolic Action (Proceedings of the 1969 Annual Spring Meeting of the American Ethnological Society). R.F. Spencer, ed. Seattle: University of Washington Press. 26-68.

Ukala, S. (1996) 'Folkism': Towards a National Aesthetic Principle for Nigerian Dramaturgy in New Theatre Quarterly, 1996 August, Part 12 (47), pp. 279-87.

Vellacott, P. (1993) An English Reader’s Guide to Sophocles’ Two Oedipus Plays. Cambridge, Monophron.

Voltaire, Oedipe (1718) translated by Downman, H. (1781) in English Verse Drama Full Text Database (Cambridge, Chadwyck-Healey. 1994)

Voltaire, Oedipe (1718) [Document électronique] available from http://visualiseur.bnf.fr/CadresFenetre?O=NUMM-89897&M=tdm&Y=Texte (accessed August 2004)

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Watts, C. (1983) King Oedipus and the Toy-Vendor in Lerner, L. ed. Reconstructing Literature. Oxford, Blackwell. pp.106-22.

White, J. (1972) Mythology in the Modern Novel. Princeton, Princeton University Press.

Yarrow, R. (1992) Ambiguity and the Supernatural in Cocteau’s La Machine Infernale in Murphy, P. (1992) Staging the impossible; The Fantastic Mode in Modern Drama. London, Greenwood Press.