The Three Theban Plays: Antigone - Oedipus the King - Oedipus at Colonus (Hardcover)

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The Three Theban Plays: Antigone - Oedipus the King - Oedipus at Colonus (Hardcover)
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The Three Theban Plays: Antigone - Oedipus the King - Oedipus at Colonus (Hardcover) - Hardcover

The Three Theban Plays: Antigone - Oedipus the King - Oedipus at Colonus (Hardcover) - Hardcover

by Sophocles , F. Storr
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Book Overview

The Theban Trilogy consists of Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone - together these tell the tragic story of Oedipus the king of Thebes, and his daughter Antigone. Oedipus the King (in Latin Oedipus Rex) sees the youthful Oedipus consults the Oracle at Delphi, wherein it predicts that he will "Mate with [his] own mother, and shed/With [his] own hands the blood of [his] own sire". Oedipus at Colonus has the elderly Oedipus, by now ostracised and distrusted by society at large for his earlier, unintended wrongdoing. Blind after gouging out his own eyes in reaction to the revelations of the first play, it is his daughter/sister Antigone who escorts him to King Theseus. The final play in the Trilogy is Antigone - this title sees Oedipus offspring navigate the drama of a Civil War in Thebes. All three compositions are superb examples of Greek drama; owing to their revelatory contents and narrative twists, Sophocles' Theban plays remain popular to this day.
ISBN9781387816446
Author Sophocles , F. Storr
PublisherLulu.com
GenreLiterature
FormatHardcover
PublishedAugust 2018
LanguageENG- English
Pages102
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Lulu Raczka is an award-winning writer. She is Company Director of Barrel Organ, with whom she worked on her first play Nothing. Nothing was awarded The Sunday Times Playwriting Award as well as the National Student Drama Festival Award for Creative Risk. Some People Talk About Violence, also with Barrel Organ, played at the Edinburgh Fringe, New Diorama and Camden's People Theatre in 2015. In 2016 Lulu's Clytemnestra formed part of the Gate Theatre's Iphigenia Quartet and her play Grey Man was produced as part of the Shakespeare in Shoreditch Festival and at Theatre503, London. Lulu's play A Girl in School Uniform (Walks into a Bar) was first produced by West Yorkshire Playhouse in 2017 and at the New Diorama Theatre. Her first original television series, Lena the Psychic, is in development with Expanded Media.

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