SOURCE: “Oral Composition in the Oedipus Tyrannus of Sophocles,” in New Literary History, Vol. 16, No. 1, Autumn, 1984, pp. 175-97.
In the following essay, Havelock describes elements of oral composition that can be found in the text of Oedipus Tyrannus.
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