Oedipus
Cast: 1f 7m, plus extras and chorus
Staging: Multipurpose set
Amateur rights performance fee: £60 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)
23 Feb 1999Size: 165mm x 110mm
Oedipus
Paperback
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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.
'Kenneth McLeish's fine translation'
Daily Telegraph'An unparalleled translator of the Greeks'
Financial TimesCast: 1f 7m, plus extras and chorus
Staging:Multipurpose set
Amateur rights performance fee: £60 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)
23 Feb 1999Size: 165mm x 110mm
