So you haven't read Oedipus the King by Sophocles? Well, get your tragedy mask ready as we tell you about this masterpiece that has influenced the structure of western drama for millennia! Ranking ...

Sophocles explored the story in the play Oedipus The King (Oedipus Rex), and now acclaimed Irish director Wayne Jordan is bringing a new production of this very play to the Abbey Theatre stage.

It seems that director Jonathan Wilson does not believe in art for art's sake. He has placed his production of Sophocles' "Oedipus the King" within a Hartford Stage Co. AIDS awareness program ...

Learn about Oedipus, King Of Thebes - As Sophocles' Oedipus the King begins, the people of Thebes are begging the king for help, begging him to discover the cause of the plague.

Read the monologue for the role of Oedipus from the script for Oedipus the King by Sophocles. Oedipus says: <p>O wealth and empiry and skill by skill <br> Outwitted in the battlefield of life, <br ...

It took nearly three millenia, but, finally, on January 15, 1912 – exactly one hundred years ago today – Sophocles’ tragedy “Oedipus the King” was performed in the English language for ...

Read the monologue for the role of Oedipus from the script for Oedipus the King by Sophocles.