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Unveiling Jocasta. The Brave Queen of Dryden and Lee. To better appreciate the daring originality of Dryden and Lee’s Oedipus. A Tragedy, it is useful to begin considering the three authors discussed by Dryden himself in the Preface to the play: Sophocles, Seneca and Corneille, whom he acknowledges to have used only as partial sources, while in more cases than one his reluctance to admit their true influence is evident. In this perspective it is perhaps even more interesting that Shakespeare, whose relevance is perceivable everywhere, is never mentioned. Looking closer at Dryden’s critical attitude, there seems to be at work a peculiar consistency in passing over in silence not only trivial…