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Oedipus
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......who could not solve her riddle. Oedipus answered it correctly and so won...brilliantly dramatized by Sophocles in Oedipus Rex, the king learned the truth and...blinded himself. According to Homer, Oedipus continued to reign over Thebes until......
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Sophocles
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......by Aristotle as a perfect example of tragedy) is Oedipus Rex or Oedipus Tyrannus (c.429), in which Greek dramatic irony...Sophocles' death and was produced in 401. A sequel to Oedipus Rex, it tells of the last days and death of Oedipus......
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Cocteau, Jean
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......infernale (1934, tr. 1936), in which the Orpheus and Oedipus myths are surrealistically adapted to modern circumstances...written with Stravinsky) for the opera-oratorio Oedipus Rex (1927). See his autobiography; comp. from his writings......
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irony
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......characters in the play are ignorant. The most sustained example of dramatic irony is undoubtedly Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, in which Oedipus searches to find the murderer of the former king of Thebes, only to discover that it is himself, a fact......
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oratorio
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......In the 20th cent. Honegger's King David (1921) and Dance of the Dead (1940), Stravinsky's opera-oratorio Oedipus Rex (1927), Hindemith's Das Unaufhörliche (1931), William Walton's Belshazzar's Feast (1931), and Britten......
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Stravinsky, Igor Fedorovich
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......style in such works as the poetic dance-drama Histoire du Soldat (The Soldier's Tale, 1918), the opera-oratorio Oedipus Rex (1927; text by Jean Cocteau after Sophocles), and the choral composition Symphonie de psaumes (Symphony of Psalms......
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Norman, Jessye
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......Aïda at Milan's La Scala and London's Covent Garden in 1972. She made her American debut in 1982 as Jocasta in Oedipus Rex and her Metropolitan Opera debut the following year as Cassandra in Les Troyens. A majestic diva and extremely successful......
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Richardson, Sir Ralph
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......Shakespearean experience. His New York stage appearances have included King Henry IV (parts I and II), Uncle Vanya, Oedipus Rex, The School for Scandal, and Home. Possessed of great humor and known for his numerous eccentricities, he was often......
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tragedy
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......and heroines. The most famous ancient tragedies are probably the Oresteia (a trilogy) of Aeschylus, Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, and Euripides' Trojan Women.In his definitive analysis of tragedy in the Poetics (late 4th cent. BC), Aristotle......
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Pasolini, Pier Paolo
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......of poverty and squalor. His other films include Mamma Roma (1962), The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964), Oedipus Rex (1967), and Teorema (1968). His later films, imagistic and erotic adaptations of classical literature in which......