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Please
answer the following questions about Sophocles' Oedipus,
devoting 6-10 thoughtful sentences to each response.
Due:Monday, March 5, noon.
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Summarize
this play in about a paragraph (we'll survey the summaries
in class).
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The
prologue features a dialogue between Oedipus and the Priest,
then between Oedipus and Creon. Furthermore, the Chorus
is apparently already onstage (pp. 73–9). What do
you make of this in light of other prologues?
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Oedipus
claims to be a "child of Fortune, beneficent goddess"
(vv. 1080–1). How is this statement appropriate
at this moment in the drama?
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Imagine you are directing the Oedipus for theatrical
performance. At what point during the conversation
between Oedipus and the First Messenger (pp. 114–23) do you
think Jocasta should register her recognition of the awful
truth? How should that recognition be expressed?
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