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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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    was adapted by John Dryden in his very successful heroic drama Oedipus, licensed in 1678. The 1718 Oedipus was also the first play written by Voltaire...
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  • Latin-language tragedy by Seneca the Younger Oedipus (Dryden), an English-language tragedy by John Dryden Oedipus (Voltaire), a French-language tragedy by...
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    John Dryden (/ˈdraɪdən/; 19 August [O.S. 9 August] 1631 – 12 May [O.S. 1 May] 1700) was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who...
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    four movements from his incidental music (Z 583) to Oedipus, a version of Sophocles' play by John Dryden and Nathaniel Lee, published in 1679. It was composed...
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    Nathaniel Lee (section Plays)
    Elizabethan tragedies. Lee was also named as a collaborator with Dryden in an adaptation of Oedipus (1679). The Princess of Cleve (1681) is an adaptation of Madame...
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  • verse play by Steven Berkoff. It was first performed at The Half Moon Theatre, London on 11 February 1980. It is a retelling of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex....
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    other visual media. In Greek mythology: Oedipus is depicted as blinding himself in the Sophocles play Oedipus Rex. Upon discovering that he has unknowingly...
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  • Statesman Thomas D'Urfey – The Virtuous Wife John Dryden Oedipus (adapted from Sophocles' Oedipus Rex with Nathaniel Lee, published) Troilus and Cressida...
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  • series, which adapted all of Shakespeare's plays for the small screen. In 1986 he directed Oedipus Rex (Oedipus the King). His final television work was...
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    Monmouth. Dryden, however, did his best to extenuate his own responsibility in a Vindication of the Duke of Guise separately published. The play was first...
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    William Shakespeare (category King's Men (playing company))
    Greer 1986, p. 9. Grady 2001b, p. 266. Grady 2001b, p. 269. Dryden 1889, p. 71. "John Dryden (1631–1700). Shakespeare. Beaumont and Fletcher. Ben Jonson...
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  • Greek (opera) (category Works based on Oedipus Rex)
    from Steven Berkoff's 1980 verse play Greek. The play and the opera are a re-telling of Sophocles's Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex with the setting changed to...
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    A Song for St. Cecilia's Day (category Poetry by John Dryden)
    (1687) is the first of two odes written by the English Poet Laureate John Dryden for the annual festival of Saint Cecilia's Day observed in London every...
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    Myrrha showed this. A translation of Ovid's Myrrha, by English poet John Dryden in 1700, has been interpreted as a metaphor for British politics of the...
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    character. Dryden, John Preface to Troilus and Cressida in: Novak, M. E (ed.) (1984). The Works of John Dryden: Volume XIII Plays: All for Love; Oedipus; Troilus...
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  • during the time "when the Dog-star cleaves the thirsty Ground". Seneca's Oedipus complains of "the scorching dog-star's fires". Pliny's Natural History...
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    The Spanish Friar (category Plays by John Dryden)
    The Spanish Friar, or the Double Discovery is a tragicomedy by John Dryden, produced and published in 1681. Torrismond, Son of Sancho, the deposed King...
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  • (1677) Elvira in The Counterfeits by John Leanerd (1678) Eurydice in Oedipus by John Dryden (1678) Cassandra in The Destruction of Troy by John Banks (1678)...
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    (translated into English prose by Sir Richard C. Jebb) The Oedipus Cycle Oedipus the King Oedipus at Colonus Antigone Ajax Electra The Trachiniae Philoctetes...
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    Fancy Aphra Behn (1678) Jocasta in Oedipus by John Dryden (1678) Andromache in Troilus and Cressida by John Dryden (1679) Pulcheria in Theodosius by Nathaniel...
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    the Trojan Horse during the Trojan War. Theseus welcomed the wandering Oedipus and helped Adrastus to bury the Seven against Thebes. Lycomedes of the...
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  • that he was Woodall in Dryden's ‘Limberham,’ the cast of which has not survived. To 1679 belong Adrastus in Dryden and Lee's ‘Œdipus;’ Hector in ‘Troilus...
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    by Dryden and Sir Robert Howard. In these semi-operas (another term for which at the time was "dramatic opera"), the main characters of the plays do not...
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    Amphitryon (category French plays)
    Age (1613). John Dryden's 1690 Amphitryon is based on Molière's 1668 version as well as on Plautus. Notable innovations from Dryden's adaptation include...
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  • Molière The Oedipus Plays (1996) The Art of Seduction (1997) from La Double Inconstance by Pierre Marivaux Cyrano de Bergerac (1995) from the play by Edmond...
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  • Varvoglis Oedipus at Colonus (Sophocles, c. 406 BC) 1845 music by Felix Mendelssohn 1936 music by Ildebrando Pizzetti Oedipus, a Tragedy (John Dryden and Nathaniel...
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  • reputation for posterity much as Dryden's "Mac Flecknoe" affected Thomas Shadwell's. In 1727, Theobald produced a play Double Falshood; or The Distrest...
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    Elizabeth Inchbald as Lady Jane Gray. Oedipus by John Dryden and Nathaniel Lee illustrated with John Philip Kemble as Oedipus. Ximena or The Heroic Daughter...
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  • As You Like It, Peter Brook’s Oedipus, In His Own Write and many others. At the Royal Court in London, Cotton has played leads in many productions including...
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