Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price
The story of the mythical Greek king of Thebes, the archetypal tragic hero who accidentally fulfills a prophecy that he will end up killing his father and marrying his mother, thereby bringing disaster down upon his city and family.
This volume, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series, contains two plays by Sophocles, Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonos, in English translations by Kenneth McLeish.
It also includes an introduction to the plays.
| ISBN: | 9781854596109 |
| Publication date: | 23rd February 2001 |
| Author: | Sophocles |
| Publisher: | Nick Hern Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 160 pages |
| Series: | Drama Classics |
| Genres: |
Plays, playscripts |