Word: jocasta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sophocles' Oedipus the King, Oedipus and Jocasta's daughters, Antigone and Ismene, are very young and silent. Sloan, however, has drawn on all versions of the Oedipus myth, and in his play the daughters are teen-agers or older, both articulate judges of their parents. Antigone is a haughty spitfire, Ismene a dutiful but skeptical daughter. Unlike Sophocles, Sloan includes the incestuous pair's son Polynices and implies a homosexual relationship with Jocasta's nephew Haemon. A very up-to-date household, indeed. When Oedipus is bent on throttling Haemon at one point, Jocasta begs...