Sophocles

1. Khelli Caldwell Sophocles

2. Who was Sophocles? is one of three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays have survived. Sophocles wrote 123 plays during the course of his life, but only seven have survived in a complete form: Ajax, Antigone, The Women of Trachis , Oedipus the King, Electra, Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus .[

3. His Plays Sophocles had the most plays of any playwright in the dramatic competitions of the city-state of Athens. Most of them took place during the religious festivals. The most famous tragedies of Sophocles feature, Oedipus and Antigone: they are generally known as the Theban Plays .

4. His Influences on other P laywrites Every major dramatist—from Seneca to William Shakespeare, from Jean-Baptiste Molière to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe—has been influenced in some degree by Sophocles' conception of tragedy. For example, the process of Catharsis , in Shakespearean plays was adapted from Greek plays.

5. Play Genres

6. Comedy: Comedies are plays which are designed to be humorous. Comedies are often filled with witty remarks, unusual characters, and strange circumstances. Certain comedies are geared toward different age groups. Comedies were one of the two original play types of Ancient Greece, along with tragedies. Return