{"product_id":"two-oedipal-plays-9781088060278","title":"Two Oedipal Plays","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Lenny Cavallaro\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Lenny Cavallaro\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Lenny Cavallaro\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSophocles is best known for \u003cem\u003eOedipus the King\u003c\/em\u003e, in which the protagonist discovers-to his horror -that he has slain his father and married his mother. In one guise or another this thematic material is familiar territory for Sophocles; it arises in at least two more of his dramas, including \u003cem\u003eOdysseus Acanthoplex.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Interpretation of Dreams\u003c\/em\u003e Freud explains that Hamlet is unable to avenge his father's murder because of his repressed Oedipus complex-i.e., because Claudius has killed Hamlet's father and now sleeps with Hamlet's mother, and thus \"shows him [i.e., Hamlet] the repressed wishes of childhood realized.\" However, we know that Hamlet will ultimately slay his [step-]father. Moreover, in Act III, scene iv Hamlet explicitly instructs his mother not to sleep with the King: suggestively Oedipal material, to say the least. Lenny Cavallaro has written a very short, one-act \u003cem\u003eHamlet\u003c\/em\u003e and a conjectural \"restoration\" of \u003cem\u003eOdysseus Acanthoplex.\u003c\/em\u003e In both texts we encounter similar thematic motifs, and while the works are vastly different, the pairing is indeed coherent.","brand":"Lenny Cavallaro","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47779661283479,"sku":"9781088060278","price":635.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781088060278.webp?v=1778038211","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/two-oedipal-plays-9781088060278","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}