Oedipus
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Oedipus: A Play in Five Acts
By VoltaireVoltaire (1694-1778) was a prolific French philosopher, historian, novelist, poet, essayist--and popular playwright and opera librettist. Oedipus, produced in 1718, was his first drama, a recasting of Sophocles's play of the same name.
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Oedipus: The Ancient Legend and Its Later Analogues
By Lowell EdmundsDrawing on more than seventy works that dispersed the Oedipus legend from Greece to Asia, Africa, and the Americas, Edmunds provides a foundation for discussion of the lasting appeal of this legend, for claims of its universality, and for ...
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Oedipus
By Lowell EdmundsPublisher description
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Oedipus
By Lowell EdmundsLowell Edmunds. National Opera Guides, 43. London: John Calder. Pp. 7–43. Kallich, Martin, Andrew MacLeish, and Gertrude Schoenbohm, eds. 1968. Oedipus: Myth and Drama. New York: Odyssey Press. Katz, Joshua.Forthcoming.
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Oedipus: The Ancient Legend and Its Later Analogues
By Lowell EdmundsText: R. Jahnke, Lactantii Placidi Qui Dicitur Commentarios in Statii Thebaida et Commentarium in Achilleida (Leipzig, 1898). ... Oedipus the King. ... E.g., D. Fitts and R. Fitzgerald, The Oedipus Cycle (New York, 1949). Stat. Statius.
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Oedipus: The King
By SophoclesSophocles' tragic drama about the downfall of Oedipus after the prophesy that he will murder his father and marry his mother comes true
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Oedipus
By Sophocles, Frank McGuinnessThe people of Thebes look to Oedipus to lift a terrible curse from them and their city. He consults the oracle and learns that he must root out the late...
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Oedipus: A Version of Sophocles' King Oedipus and Oedipus at Colonus
By Derek MahonPairing 'King Oedipus' and 'Oedipus at Colonus' creates a single play unified by the arc of the hero's tragic fate.