The Latine context also impacts the intricacies of the story. In “Oedipus el Rey,” Jocasta is given a much more prominent, ...

Oedipus Rex. The man with the complex. The dude who killed his father and married his mother. Everybody — thanks to Sigmund Freud — knows that story. But what is "Oedipus Rex," the grandaddy of all ...

Playwright-director Robert Icke drops the “rex” in Sophocles’ “Oedipus Rex” because he sets the tragedy in the contemporary world where the title character is running to be prime minister of the U.K.

Celebrating its 50th anniversary, IRT is taking another look at the classic Oedipus. “The play is a study in leadership, and since we live in a country so riven by opposing views of what constitutes ...

I prepare them for Sophocles from the first week, when I distribute the syllabuses. “And there, you see, in the seventh week, we’ll read and talk about a play called Oedipus Rex.” “What’s it about?” ...