Oedipus the King by Sophocles

Oedipus the King

Sophocles with Laurence Senelick (Translator)

78 pages first pub -429 (editions)

fiction classics play dark tense fast-paced
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The plot of the play consists of nothing other than the gradual rising and artistically protracted revelation--similar to the work of psychoanalysis--that Oedipus is himself the murderer of Laius, but also the son of the murdered man and Jocasta. ...

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