Oedipus
Series: Drama Classics
Imprint: Nick Hern Books
Paperback, 160 pages ISBN: 9781854596109Publication Date:
23 Feb 1999
Size: 165mm x 110mm£4.99 £3.99You save £1.00 (20%)
First Staged:
c. 430BC

Oedipus

By Sophocles Translated by Kenneth McLeish

Paperback £4.99£3.99

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The story of the mythical Greek king of Thebes, the archetypal tragic hero who accidentally fulfills a prophecy that he will end up killing his father and marrying his mother, thereby bringing disaster down upon his city and family.

This volume, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series, contains two plays by Sophocles, Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonos, in English translations by Kenneth McLeish.

It also includes an introduction to the plays.

Set Text: Oedipus is a set text for WJEC Drama and Theatre Studies A/AS-Level.

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'Kenneth McLeish's fine translation'

Daily Telegraph

'An unparalleled translator of the Greeks'

Financial Times
Series: Drama Classics
Imprint: Nick Hern Books
Paperback,160 pages ISBN: 9781854596109Publication Date:
23 Feb 1999
Size: 165mm x 110mm£4.99 £3.99You save £1.00 (20%)

Also by Sophocles:

Oedipus
Oedipus
Electra
Antigone
Antigone
Elektra
Greek Tragedy: Three Plays

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Also by Kenneth McLeish:

Medea
Ubu
The Master Builder
Women of Troy
A Flea in Her Ear
Poetics
Hedda Gabler
A Doll's House
Rosmersholm
Miss Julie
Peer Gynt
Bacchae
Ibsen: Three Plays
Don Juan
An Italian Straw Hat
The Lady From the Sea

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