Reviews - The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone

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The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone

Sophocles

3.87 AVERAGE

thealcove's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

rachael_amber's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

bamdad's review against another edition

5.0

در کل فوق العاده بود.
کم و بیش با نمایشنامه اول آشنا بودم و کلا داستان ادیپوس و مخصوصا سرنوشتش توی نمایشنامه اول برام مسخره و غیرقابل قبول بود اما وقتی کامل خوندمش به شدت تحت تاثیر قرار گرفتم مخصوصا با دیالوگ های خود اودیپوس در قسمت های پایانی.
هر سه تا نمایشنامه پایان های به شدت فوق العاده و مو بر تن راست کنی داشتن فقط یه مشکل کوچیک با پایان ادیپوس در کلنوس داشتم که اونم این بود که خیلی دوست داشتم چیزی که ادیپوس به تسئوس نشون میده رو بدونم چیه و تو نمایشنامه بخونمش.
و چه ترجمه ی فوق العاده ای هم هست ترجمه شاهرخ مسکوب قشنگ ترجمه ی جان داریه و نثرش کاملا حس داره، حتی میشه گفت به شدت کوبنده اس.

xsom's review against another edition

4.0

mysterious reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

gabbydoesntread's review against another edition

3.25

challenging emotional sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

jxmster's review against another edition

3.75

challenging dark reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

dzengota's review against another edition

4.0

Its hard to always be certain why something is good. The plays in this are short, not allowing for extensive plot arcs or over-complicated scheming. The characters are simple, powerfully believing one or two key things and little else. Regardless, putting those strong believing characters into simple conflict is incredibly engaging. I remember reading Antigone in college and not getting why, but damn is it so cool and good.

Also, shout out to my boy Oedipus for having to argue with people about the lack of evil intent in his actions. Actions that led him to blind himself and his mother/wife to kill herself. Freud really had to be the one to come back three thousand years later and bury him huh.

Ancient Greek tragedy, who would have figured.