Oedipus Rex, also known by its Greek title, Oedipus Tyrannus (Ancient Greek: Οἰδίπους Τύραννος, pronounced [oidípuːs týrannos]), or Oedipus the King,...
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family. The story of Oedipus is the subject of Sophocles' tragedy Oedipus Rex, which is followed in the narrative sequence by Oedipus at Colonus and then...
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Oedipus rex is an opera-oratorio by Igor Stravinsky, scored for orchestra, speaker, soloists, and male chorus. The libretto, based on Sophocles's tragedy...
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its roots in the same soil as Oedipus Rex", and that the differences between the two plays are revealing: In [Oedipus Rex] the child's wishful fantasy...
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Oedipus Rex (Edipo re) is a 1967 Italian film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. Pasolini adapted the screenplay from the Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex written...
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Sophocles (redirect from Oedipus Cycle)
a complete form: Ajax, Antigone, Women of Trachis, Oedipus Rex, Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus. For almost fifty years, Sophocles was the...
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in 401 BC. In the timeline of the plays, the events of Oedipus at Colonus occur after Oedipus Rex and before Antigone; however, it was the last of Sophocles's...
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Oedipus Rex is a 1957 film, a film version of the Canadian Stratford Festival production of the William Butler Yeats adaptation of the play Oedipus Rex...
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Peripeteia (section Oedipus Rex)
Aristotle identified Oedipus Rex as the principal work demonstrating peripety. (See Aristotle's Poetics.) In Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, the peripeteia occurs...
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Oedipus Rex is a play by Sophocles. Oedipus Rex may also refer to: Oedipus, a king of Thebes in Greek mythology Pseudoeurycea rex, a salamander species...
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An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer (redirect from Oedipus Rex (song))
College Days" – 3:03 "A Christmas Carol" – 2:54 "The Elements" – 2:16 "Oedipus Rex" – 3:41 "In Old Mexico" – 6:26 "Clementine" – 4:40 "It Makes a Fellow...
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meeting between Oedipus and the Sphinx on the road outside Thebes, as described in Sophocles's play Oedipus Rex. The painting depicts Oedipus meeting the...
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Antigone (section Oedipus Rex)
Theban plays: Antigone and her sister Ismene are seen at the end of Oedipus Rex as Oedipus laments the "shame" and "sorrow" he is leaving his daughters to...
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Ismene (section Oedipus Rex)
She appears in several tragic plays of Sophocles: at the end of Oedipus Rex, in Oedipus at Colonus and in Antigone. She also appears at the end of Aeschylus'...
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Creon (king of Thebes) (section Oedipus Rex)
figures prominently in the plays Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone, written by Sophocles. In Oedipus Rex, Creon is a brother of queen Jocasta...
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The Crying of Lot 49 (section Oedipus Rex)
tragedy Oedipus Rex, and that of the Oedipus Complex, a psychoanalytical theory pioneered by Sigmund Freud. Comparing the novel with Oedipus Rex, some scholars...
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story of Oedipus, which is better known through the play Oedipus Rex by the Athenian playwright, Sophocles. It is written in Latin. Oedipus is the king...
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The heroic drama Oedipus: A Tragedy, is an adaption of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, written by John Dryden and Nathaniel Lee. After being licensed in 1678 and...
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racehorse Oedipus Rex, an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus, an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles Oedipus (Euripides), a mostly lost play Oedipus (Seneca)...
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of women in Western literature. Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, an ancient Greek retelling of this legend as a play Oedipus, describing the life and cultural...
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It was Apollo's prophecy that revealed Oedipus' fate in Sophocles' Oedipus the King. The link to Oedipus Rex is only a minor element in most English-language...
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Greek mythological themes in works including Apollon musagète (1927), Oedipus rex (1927), and Persephone (1935). In his serial period, Stravinsky turned...
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the discovery. The plot and eventual climax of Oedipus Rex revolves around accidental incest. Oedipus, raised by an adoptive mother who he believes is...
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Stravinsky's Oedipus rex, for the Saito Kinen Orchestra in Japan, under the baton of Seiji Ozawa in 1992. The opera featured Philip Langridge as Oedipus and Jessye...
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triad of tragedies known as the three Theban plays, following Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus. Even though the events in Antigone occur last in the...
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Oedipus Rex by Sophocles. He suggested that a "wasteland motif predominates in both works", in which a character (Noah Cross in Chinatown and Oedipus...
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Oedipus the King is a 1968 British film adaptation of the Sophoclean tragedy Oedipus Rex, directed and co-written by Philip Saville. It stars Christopher...
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The Gods Are Not to Blame (category Plays based on Oedipus Rex)
play and a 1971 novel by Ola Rotimi. An adaptation of the Greek classic Oedipus Rex, the story centres on Odewale, who is lured into a false sense of security...
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Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal and Dore Oedipus mattu Antigone, translation of Sophocles' Antigone and Oedipus Rex. Lankesh was the Editor of Lankesh Patrike...
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avoid tragedy, which Hyde asserts is problematic. In Oedipus Rex, she observes that the ideas of Oedipus' hasty behavior at the crossroads or his trust in...
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