Amid the coronavirus, let us consider how the cornerstone text of Western literature is about a ruler discovering himself while confronting an epidemic.

Ever since Sophocles wrote Oedipus Rex, the best mystery stories have featured heroes who don't merely discover the truth about a murder but the truth about themselves.

Sophocles' Oedipus Rex is traditionally interpreted as a play about the gods' relation to human agency. But this understanding of the text is deficient and misses the point. Instead, and as I ...

The real power of Oedipus Rex lies not in the fact that it illustrates the Oedipus complex—that Oedipus was oedipal—but that it depicts a troubling and seemingly universal dimension of human ...

The film explores the themes of fate, prophecy, and the struggle between human intelligence and divine knowledge through the story of Oedipus. Oedipus, a tragic hero, attempts to escape a prophecy ...

“Oedipus Rex” is about as far from a new work as possible, having first been performed around 1,600 years ago. While stories of this caliber and place in the literary canon can often feel ...

There were multiple versions of “Oedipus Rex,” as the show is traditionally called, on Broadway in the early 20th century, but then it largely disappeared — the last production, a weeklong ...

In the fifth century BCE, the ancient Greek playwrights Sophocles, Aeschylus, and Euripides achieved immortal fame through tragic plays like “Antigone,” “Oedipus Rex,” “Agamemnon,” and ...

Immersive opera such as this can be tricky to pull off, but the magic of Roxana Haines’s new production of Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex lies in its simplicity, letting the material organically weave ...