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What does Sophoclean mean?

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Adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to Sophocles or his works.
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Bergman's script does not say whether the Electra during which Elisabet has gone mute is the Sophoclean tragedy or the more comical, parodic version by Euripides.
In the financial press, the fall of Facebook has been spun out like a sophoclean tragedy.
You might have a thousand groupings, dispersions, regroupings, in as perfect bas-relief style as those of any sophoclean drama.
Astropelos is a simple beach restaurant run by Maria Fioravante, a striking woman with the bearing and locomotion of a Sophoclean chorister in a chiton, with a spritz of California.
This essay gives a particularly strong reading of these narrating voices as 'exceeding' the Sophoclean polarities represented by Antigone and her sister Ismene.
At this time he was also working on the play Robert Guiskard, an ambitious work in which he attempted to unite ancient Sophoclean tragedy and the Shakespearean drama of character, but it would remain a fragment.

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