Sophocles: Oedipus the King

For centuries the myth of Oedipus, the man who unwittingly killed his father and married his mother, has exerted a powerful hold on the human imagination; but no retelling of that myth has ever come close, in passion, drama, and menace to the one that we find in Sophocles'' Oedipus the King. This new full-scale edition of that classic play - the first in any language since 1883 - offers a freshly ...