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"The noted novelist Anthony Burgess has provided, in this translation and adaptation of the Greek classic, a highly dramatic and forceful piece of work, one which is theatrically effective for present-day audiences. It is the version on which was based a major production by the Guthrie Theater Company under the direction of Michael Langham at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. The dialogue, though modern, conveys the feeling of the ancient period....

Bearer of an almost unspeakable, immutable fate, Oedipus yet feels himself a man chosen--that is, favored--by the gods. Now an old man, blind and outcast, Oedipus wanders through Greece guided by his daughter Antigone until he comes to Colonus, where he knows he will die. This second play of the Oedipus saga finds Oedipus railing against the indignities of old age, possibly reflecting the authors own sentiments, as Sophocles was nearly 90 at the time...

Includes a brief biography of Sophocles, thematic and structural analysis of the work, critical views, and an index of themes and ideas.

In this video, Anthony Quayle and Juliet Stevenson star in a new translation of the ancient Greek tragedy written by Sophocles. Oedipus and Antigone seek sanctuary from Theseus because the blind man does not want to die in Thebes.

"Sophocles' "Oedipus tyrannus" is the most famous of ancient tragedies and a literary masterpiece. It is not, however, the only classical dramatization of Oedipus' quest to discover his identity. Seneca composed a fine, but neglected and often disparaged Latin tragedy on the same subject, which, in some ways, comes closer to our common understanding of the Oedipus myth." In new translations by Frederick Ahl, readers can compare the two versions.--[Book...

Psychoanalysis and the Politics of Family aims to raise a sophisticated and highly accessible debate around the family, self-making and the political and cultural implications of liberation. The text proposes a new way to read the Lacanian theory of Oedipus and through this reading resituate a series of important political and theoretical debates that have concerned intellectual life over the last forty years. It is written with an accessible style...

The power of the Oedipus legend is apparent not only in its interpretations but even more so in its variations. As Edmunds writes, "Translations, adaptations, and performances still come forth in a never-ending stream. Again and again, playwrights have tried their hand at new shapings of the Sophoclean Oedipuses and often a country's Oedipus forms a whole chapter in the history of its literature." Drawing on more than seventy works that dispersed...