PLAYWRIGHTS with Mark Schenker: OEDIPUS REX by Sophocles

The lecture will give the audience insight into the play Oedipus Rex by Sophocles. The story of King Oedipus (called Oedipus Tyrannus in Greek) was written by the playwright Sophocles and won second prize in Athens’ annual drama festival, the ‘City Dionysia’, in about 427 BC. Set in the city of Thebes, the tragedy contains one of the most famous riddles ever devised (the ‘Riddle of the Sphinx’), and is an epic story of murder, incest, and terrible unintended consequences.