In his essay “On Misunderstanding the Oedipus Rex,” E.R. Dodds dismantles the notion that Oedipus must be either a victim of fate or a casualty of his own faulty character.

Craig Rich promises those who might think the Greek tragedy “Oedipus Rex” falls under the genre of stuffy classic theater that “We’re going to prove you wrong.” &#8220… ...

Oedipus Rex, which opened on November 17, marks the start of the Court Theatre’s Oedipus Trilogy: The Theatre will stage all three of Sophocles’s Theban plays over the course of the next year. The aim ...

Sophocles' Oedipus Rex is traditionally interpreted as a play about the gods' relation to human agency. But this understanding of the text is deficient and misses the point. Instead, and as I ...

Some of Hollywood’s most respected actors performed “Oedipus Rex” for a global audience of thousands Thursday night – on Zoom. Frances McDormand, John Turturro, Oscar Isaac and others read ...

When Luis Alfaro (pictured) decided to update Sophocles' classic play "Oedipus Rex," the playwright assumed he would do something about Freud's well-known theory, the Oedipus complex.

And suddenly, Sophocles’ “Oedipus Rex” comes to mind. In his youth, Oedipus solved the riddle of the Sphinx and rescued the city of Thebes from ruin. He was hailed as “first among men.” At the time, ...

Oedipus Rex Commenator Bill Harley visits a classroom and gets so excited about storytelling, he blunders into "Oedipus rex," and the kids get curious about incest, patricide and other neat stuff.

Igor Stravinsky`s ”Oedipus Rex” is a curiosity of that composer`s neo-classicism, a Greek tragedy performed in Latin and wearing a mask of artifice throughout. It bears the subtitle ”opera ...

On June 18, 2021, I watched Los Angeles Opera’s film of Stravinsky’s 1927 opera-oratorio Oedipus Rex. Jean Cocteau, who wrote the libretto, based it on the ancient Greek tragedy Sophocles ...