Comparative Drama, September 22nd, 2002
Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 1999. Pp. xii + 243. $27.95.
In Allegory and the Tragic Chorus, Roger Travis combines literary theory and Lacanian as well as object-relations psychoanalytic methodologies to study the chorus in Oedipus at Colonus. Travis's main argument is that there is an allegory, an extended metaphor that pervades the play, "the allegorical performance of the self's fantasy-contents" (10). This allegory connects the play to both Oedipus and the Athenian audience and further reveals, through the chorus, "the self's relation to the maternal body" (3), i...
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