Word: sophoclean
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...GOSPEL AT COLONUS. An unlikely mix of glorious gospel music and Sophoclean scenes yields a cheering new Broadway musical...
Transit has much in common with the archetypal "old stories" of love and tragedy that form our literary past. It's almost schematic in outline, obeying some huge Sophoclean unity of thirty years' tragedy. Hazzard carefully constructs the work to fit this ancient paradigm and moves with silent and relentless force along a cosmic plan of the way things are in the world, and should be in a novel...