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John Jones. old king ; and the blind prophet Teiresias is a figure of potent suggestion far beyond the apparent size and function of his parts in the first Oedipus play and the Antigone . The blind man explores the way in front of him ...
John Jones. old king ; and the blind prophet Teiresias is a figure of potent suggestion far beyond the apparent size and function of his parts in the first Oedipus play and the Antigone . The blind man explores the way in front of him ...
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... blind homeless beggar who had once been a king in Sophocles's last play , Oedipus at Colonus . Oedipus , like Philoc- tetes , has suffered social death . He too is a man " of no city " , " and he calls himself a " ghost " .3 Words of ...
... blind homeless beggar who had once been a king in Sophocles's last play , Oedipus at Colonus . Oedipus , like Philoc- tetes , has suffered social death . He too is a man " of no city " , " and he calls himself a " ghost " .3 Words of ...
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... blind , in his dependence on those who can see . When the thunder sounds , and he begins to move with mysterious confidence towards his place of death , we do well to recall Sophocles's image of the right - hand trace - horse for the ...
... blind , in his dependence on those who can see . When the thunder sounds , and he begins to move with mysterious confidence towards his place of death , we do well to recall Sophocles's image of the right - hand trace - horse for the ...
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New Fictions for Old I I | 11 |
Imitation and Action | 21 |
Human Beings | 29 |
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