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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.



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Oedipus

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    A Paperback / softback by Sophocles, Kenneth McLeish

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      Publisher Nick Hern Books
      Published 23 February 1999
      ISBN-13 9781854596109
      978-1854596109
      ISBN-10 1854596101
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      Poetry

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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.



      Trade Review

      'Kenneth McLeish's fine translation'

      * Daily Telegraph *

      'An unparalleled translator of the Greeks'

      * Financial Times *

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