Next Reading

Matt sent me the following e-mail:

Each play is about 12-15 pages long, but - at least, for me - each page shall take a harder tyme to reade for it was wrot' in an olde form of Aenglish. Furthermore, although I agree that reading more is better in some ways, I'd also like the opportunity to read through each selection two or three times before the discussion, and I don't think I'll have the time to do so if we read both of these plays. Lastly, according to The Great Ideas Program, "It is unfair to Antigone to read it in conjunction with Oedipus the King. It is almost certain to be compared with the other tragedy; and what should be considered as a superb tragedy in its own right will probably always suffer by comparison with Oedipus the King." In other words, it seems these two plays were only juxtaposed because they are in the same genre, but there doesn't seem to be a common idea which unifies their plots.

For these reasons, I think it would be best to split up the readings.

I think everyone would agree. So, we will officially limit the reading to Oedipus the King.