Oedipus the King

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Production First performed Venues Companies
Oedipus Kourion Ancient Theatre (Cyprus) Pushkin Drama Theatre of Moscow
Edipo
Oedipus Rex University Theater (Washington, District of Columbia, United States) Catholic University of America
Greek unknown venue (Glasgow, Glasgow City, Scotland) TAG (Theatre About Glasgow) Theatre Company
Oedipus Tyrannus Ohio State University Theatre
Oedipus the King & at Colonus University of Hawaii at Manoa (Honolulu, Hawaii, United States)
Oedipe Roi Théâtre des Champs-Elysées (Paris, Île-de-France, France)
Oedipus Brooksby Melton College (Melton Mowbray, County of Leicestershire, England) Brooksby Melton College
Oedipe Roi Comédie Française (Paris, Île-de-France, France) Comédie Française
Oedipus Rex unknown venue (Gibellina, Sicily, Italy)
Oedipus University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, Glasgow City, Scotland) Reid Kerr College (HND Acting & Performance)
Oedipus the King unknown venue (Cambridge, County of Cambridgeshire, England), Guildhall School of Music and Drama (London, Greater London, England) University of Cambridge
Oedipus Rex Teatro Julio Prieto Xola (Mexico City, The Federal District, Mexico)
Oedipus Rex Bohrupee (Calcutta, Bengal, India)
Edippo tragedia (1556) 1556 unknown venue (Padova, Veneto, Italy), unknown venue (Venice, Veneto, Italy), unknown venue (Vicenza, Veneto, Italy)
Edipo Tiranno (1585) 1585 Teatro Olimpico (Vicenza, Veneto, Italy)
Œdipe (1659) 1659 Hôtel de Bourgogne (Paris, Île-de-France, France)
The Roman Empress (1670) 1670 Lincoln's Inn Fields (London, Greater London, England) King's Company
Oedipus (1678 - 1679) 1678 Dorset Garden Theatre (London, Greater London, England) Duke's Company
Oedipus, King of Thebes (1692) 1692 British Museum, Lecture Theatre (London, Greater London, England) United Company
Oedipus, King of Thebes (1696) 1696 Lincoln's Inn Fields (London, Greater London, England) Betterton's Company
Oedipus Tyrannus (1714) 1714 Mile End Green (London, Greater London, England) Low's Scholars
Oedipe (1718) 1718 Comédie Française (Paris, Île-de-France, France) Comédie Française
Oedipus (1720 - 1732) 1720 unknown venue (Dublin, Munster, Republic of Ireland)
Oedipe (1722) 1722 Chateau Vallon (France)
Oedipus Masque (1722) 1722 Lincoln's Inn Fields (London, Greater London, England)
Oedipus, King of Thebes (1729 - 1740) 1729 Lincoln's Inn Fields (London, Greater London, England)
Edippo (1729) 1729 Hoftheater (Munich, Free State of Bavaria, Germany)
Edippo (1732) 1732 Teatro S. Samuele (Venice, Veneto, Italy)
Oedipus, King of Thebes (1740) 1740 Drury Lane (London, Greater London, England)
Oedipus, King of Thebes (1744) 1744 Drury Lane (London, Greater London, England)
Oedipus (1751) 1751 unknown venue (Rudolstadt, Free State of Thuringia, Germany)
Oedipus, King of Thebes (1755) 1755 Covent Garden (London, Greater London, England)
Oedipus (1765) 1765 Stadttheater (Vienna, Vienna, Austria)
Oedipus Tyrannus (1772) 1772 unknown venue (England) Student actors
Oedipus, King of Thebes (1775) 1775 British Museum, Lecture Theatre (London, Greater London, England)
Œdipus Tyrannus (1776) 1776 Stanmore School (England)
Edippo ossia La morte di Lajo (1779) 1779 Teatro S. Benedetto (Venice, Veneto, Italy)
Oedipus (1780 - 1789) 1780 British Museum, Lecture Theatre (London, Greater London, England)
Oedipe (1781) 1781 Comédie Française (Paris, Île-de-France, France) Comédie Française
Edippo (1789) 1789 Teatro Carignano (Turin, Piedmont, Italy)
Edipo (1791) 1791 Teatro alla Scala, La Scala (Milan, Lombardy, Italy)
Oedipus Tyrannus (1806) 1806 Reading Town Hall (Reading, Borough of Reading, England) Reading School
Der Zerbrochene Krug [The Broken Jug] (1808) 1808 Hoftheater (Weimar, Free State of Thuringia, Germany)
Oedipus und Iokaste (1812) 1812 Königliches National-Theater (1802-1817), Schauspielhaus (Berlin, Land Berlin, Germany)
Oedipus und Iokaste (1813) 1813 unknown venue (Weimar, Free State of Thuringia, Germany)
Oedipus Tyrannus (1821) 1821 Royal West London Theatre (London, Greater London, England)
Ion (1821) 1821 University of Harvard (Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)
Edipo (1829) 1829 Gran Teatro Nacional (Mexico City, The Federal District, Mexico)
Oedipus, or the Riddle of the Sphinx (1834) 1834 Bowery Theater (New York City, New York, United States)
Script Year Contributors
Benki-ni Matagatta Iocaste [Jocasta on the Toilet-Bowl] T. Takagi
Bêt Noir Jan Decorte
Blood Lars Norèn
Chief Swollen Foot Andrew Loudon
City of Wine (Harmonia; Pentheus; Laius; Jocasta; Oedipus; Creon; Seven) Ned Dickens
Creon Stephen Spender (1909-1995)
Delphi, Texas Zachary Dunbar
Der Fall Ö Ulrich Plenzdorf
Der Zerbrochene Krug [The Broken Jug] Heinrich von Kleist
Edipo Alcalde [The Mayor Oedipus] Gabriel García Márquez, Stella Malagon, Orlando Senna
Edipo Re Ettore Romagnoli
Edipo Re Salvatore Quasimodo
Edipo Re Giusto Monaco
Edipo Re Dalila Curiazi
Edipo Re Manara Valgimigli
Edipo Re Vittorio Gassman
Edipo Re Guido Paduano
Edipo Re Nello Sidoti
Edipo Re Dario del Corno
Edipo Re (1920) 1920 Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857-1919), Giovanni Pennacchio, Giovacchino Forzano
Edipo re (1967) 1967 Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975)
Edipo Rey Carmen Bohorquez
Edipo Rey José María Peman
Edipo Rey (1992) 1992 Francisco R. Adrados
Edipo Tiranno Orsatto Giustiniani
Edipo Tiranno Edoardo Sanguineti
Edippo Tragedia (1565) 1565 Giovanni Andrea dell'Anguillara
Edipu s-Sultan Oliver Friggieri
Edyp królem Artur Sandauer
El Mito de Edipo Re Augustin Garcia Calvo
El Resplan Dor de la Hoguera Ramón Del Valle-Inclan
Greek Steven Berkoff
Het Huis van Labdakos (1977) 1977 Hugo Claus
Ion Thomas Noon Talfourd
Jocasta Leland Bardwell
Jocasta Philip Freund
Jocaste Michèle Fabien
King Fatfoot; or, To Break a Taboo! David Dearlove
King Oedipus Reza Abdoh
King Oedipus (1926) 1926 William Butler Yeats
Kong Oidipus E. Vandvik
König Ödipus Friedrich Hölderlin
König Ödipus Wolfgang Schadewaldt
König Ödipus Rudolf Bayr
König Oedipus Johann Jakob Christian Donner
König Oedipus Adolf Wilbrandt
König Oedipus Ernst Buschor
König Oidipus Helmut Schäfer
Koning Oidipous Evert Straat
Konung Oidipus Erik Staaff
Translation Year Contributors
Oedipe roi, tragédie de Sophocle, traduite littéralement en vers français (1858) 1858 Jules Lacroix
Eschyle, Sophocle, Euripide, tome I (extraits) tome II (pièces choisies) (1894) 1894 Aimé Puech (1860-1940)
L'Oedipe et l'Electre de Sophocle traduits du grec en françois avec des remarques (1692) 1692 André Dacier
Le Théâtre des Grecs (1730) 1730 André Charles Brotier, Pierre Brumoy, Pierre Prévost, Guillaume Dubois de Rochefort (1731-1788), Gabriel, de François Jean La Porte du Theil (1742-1815)
Les Tragédies de Sophocle, traduites par M. Bellaguet (1879) 1879 Louis Bellaguet (1818-1900)
Les Tragiques grecs (1999) 1999 Victor-Henry Debidour
Oedipe Roi (1842) 1842 Emilien-Louis Hamel
Oedipe Roi (1843) 1843 A.-L. Boyer
Oedipe Roi (1843) 1843 Léon Renier
Oedipe Roi (1851) 1851 J.-B. Darolles
Oedipe Roi (1985) 1985 Jean Bollack, Mayotte Bollack
Oedipe roi de Sophocle (1994) 1994 Victor-Henry Debidour
Oedipe Roi, traduit par G. Carlet (1850) 1850 G. Carlet
Oedipe Roi, tragédie, texte en regard avec deux traductions, l'une interlinéaire et l'autre correcte, et des notes, précédée par une notice sur la vie et les oeuvres de Sophocle (1828) 1828 Eugène Boutmy, Louis-Antoine Vendel-Heyn
Oedipe Roi, tragédie. Traduction française de Ricard revue et corrigée (1848) 1848 Dominique Ricard
Oedipe, tragédie de Sophocle, et Les Oiseaux, comédie d'Aristophane, traduites par feu M. Boivin de l'Académie française (1729) 1729 Jean Boivin ((1663-1726))
Sophocle, texte établi et traduit par Paul Masqueray (1922) 1922 Paul Masqueray
Sophocle, traduction nouvelle (1877) 1877 Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle (1818-1894)
Sophocles, tragédies (1950) 1950 Paul Mazon
Théâtre antique (1956) 1956 André Bonnard, André Obey
Théâtre de Sophocle (1862) 1862 Eugène Talbot (1814-1894)
Théâtre de Sophocle (1883) 1883 Louis Humbert
Théâtre de Sophocle, traduit en entier, avec des remarques et un examen de chaque pièce, précédé d'un discours sur les difficultés qui se rencontrent dans la traduction des poètes tragiques grecs et d'une vie de Sophocle (1788) 1788 Guillaume Dubois de Rochefort (1731-1788)
Théâtre de Sophocle: traduction nouvelle, précédée d'une notice biographique, accompagnée de notes explicatives, et suivie des notes de J. Racine sur le théâtre de Sophocle (1870) 1870 Emile Pessonneaux
Tragédies de Sophocle traduites en français avec le texte en regard, par P.A. Clipet, Tome 1er Oedipe Roi (1841) 1841 P.-A. Clipet
Tragédies de Sophocle traduites en français par M. Artaud (1827) 1827 Nicolas Louis Marie Artaud (1794-1861)
Source Date Format Held at APGRD
"When not in Greece" (New York Review of Books, 28 March 2002) 2002 Print-out archive
'Oedipus Tyrannus' of Sophocles 1978 Ticket archive
'Stage set for Cairde Summer festival at factory' 2004 Print-out archive
(Dis)placing Classical Greek Theatre 1999 Book library
100 years of the Classical Club Flyer archive
1965 Times Article: Minotis on the Challenge of Greek Tragedy 1965 Newspaper cutting archive
1986: 2nd International Meeting of Ancient Greek Drama - Delphi 1986 Poster archive
1986: B' [2nd] International Meeting of Ancient Greek Drama - Delphi 1986 Poster archive
2 audio CDs - recording of Antigone 1984 CD archive
2006 season 2006 Print-out archive
3 audio CDs - recording of Oedipus at Colonos 1984 CD archive
3 audio CDs - recording of Oedipus the King 1984 CD archive
4th International Meeting on Ancient Greek Drama 1988 Poster archive
50th birthday programme 1961 Reproduction archive
7.30 The Theban Plays Listing archive
8 Production photographs - The Swallow Song 2006 Photograph archive
8.50pm, The Theban Plays by Sophocles 1986 Newspaper cutting archive
A blast from the past 2002 Print-out archive
A century of English ritual 1982 Newspaper cutting archive
A chronological list of film adaptations of ancient Greek plays 2000 Personal notes library
A complex Oedipus 1997 Newspaper cutting archive
A conversation with Thouli Misirloglou about “Mount Olympus” Print-out archive
A Fundraising Gala at the Cockpit Theatre 2003 Flyer archive
A Greek tragedy at St Joseph's 1905 Photocopy archive
A Guide to Greek Tragedy for English Readers 1891 Print-out archive
A History of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama in Japan 2005 Offprint archive
A Hundred Years of the Cambridge Greek Play 1983 Souvenir programme archive
A Life in the Theatre 1961 Book library
A może do teatru? 1975 Photocopy archive
A Noise Within theatre website: External Forces 2022 Webpage
A reading of Oedipus Tyrannus 1955 Poster
A Register of Josef Svoboda's Scenographic and Design Work 2003 Print-out archive
A review of “Mount Olympus” 2015 Print-out archive
A Season of Shakespeare and Sophocles: Oedipus 1953 Programme archive
A Short History of the Oxford University Dramatic Society 1955 Photocopy archive
A Theatre in the House: The Careys' Globe 1999 Book library
A tragic turn of phrase 2001 Newspaper cutting archive
A triumphant Oedipus beats modern fates 1996 Photocopy archive
Acharnes 2000 Programme archive
Actors of Dionysus 1995 Seasonal calendar archive
Actors of Dionysus present Oedipus by Sophocles 2003 Print-out archive
Actors of Dionysus Publications List 1997 Bibliography archive
Actors of Dionysus Showcase 1996 Programme archive
Actors of Dionysus: Some Review and Comments 1997 Press release archive
Aeschylus: Oresteia 1998 Book library
Aeschylus: Persians 2006 Book library
African king 2001 Print-out archive
Agamemnon 1958 Programme archive
Agamemnon in Performance: 458 BC to AD 2004 2005 Book library
Alan Howard was not immune to the curse of the Thebes. He fell off the stage and broks his wrist 1996 Newspaper cutting archive
Published Contributors
(Dis)placing Classical Greek Theatre 1999 Savvas Patsalidis, Akis Sakellariou, Yoko Onizuka Chase, Theodoros Grammatas, Iakovos Kambanellis, Kenneth McLeish, Bernhard Reitz, Sara Soncini, Malgorzata Sugiera, Liana Theodoratou, Richard Jones, Rhona Justice-Malloy, Shimon Levy, Nurit Yaari, Marianne McDonald, Jeanette R. Malkin, Susan Hollis Merritt, Ioanna Roilou, Barnard Turner, Dave Williams, Steve E. Wilmer, Freddy Decreus, Erika Fischer-Lichte, John C. Green, Patrick Primavesi, James Diggle, Thalia Papadopoulou, Ruth Parkin-Gounelas, Jina Politi, J. Michael Walton, Evangelos Kritikakos, Aldo Tassi, Heiner O. Zimmermann, Anne Marie Allen, Rob K. Baum, Ekaterini Douka-Kabitoglou, Kiki Gounaridou, Jennifer Jones, Anthony R. Guneratne, Shani Hadassa
A chronological list of film adaptations of ancient Greek plays 2000 Pantelis Michelakis
A Life in the Theatre 1961 Tyrone Guthrie
A Theatre in the House: The Careys' Globe 1999 Rosalie Carey
Aeschylus: Oresteia 1998 Peter Meineck, Helene Foley
Aeschylus: Persians 2006 David Rosenbloom
Agamemnon in Performance: 458 BC to AD 2004 2005 Fiona Macintosh, Pantelis Michelakis, Edith Hall, Oliver Taplin, Pat E. Easterling AKA Patricia, Inga-Stina Ewbank, Susanna Phillippo, Michael Ewans, Margaret Reynolds, Yopie Prins, J. Michael Walton, Lorna Hardwick, Massimo Fusillo, Dmitry Trubotshkin, Pierre Judet de la Combe, Anton Bierl, Helene Foley, Rush Rehm, Amanda Wrigley
An Account of the Harvard Greek Play 1882 Henry Norman
Ancient Scripts and Modern Experience on the English Stage, 1500-1700 1988 Bruce R. Smith
Antike Dramentheorien und ihre Rezeption 1992 Bernhard Zimmermann
Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics. Vol.04.1 (Spring 1996) 1996 Bernard Knox, Herbert Golder, Tony Harrison
Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics. Vol.11.2 (Fall 2003) 2003 Fiona Macintosh, Mark Rudman
Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics. Vol.12.1 (Spring/Summer 2004) 2004 Edith Hall
Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics. Vol.13.1 (Spring/Summer 2005) 2005 David Wiles, Gilbert Murray (1866-1975), Tony Harrison
British Theatre 1946 Peter Noble (b.1917), Laurence Olivier
Cahiers du GITA. Vol.10. Les Choéphores d'Eschyle 1997
Celebratio: Thirtieth Anniverary Essays at Trent University 1998 Janet P. Bews, Ian C Storey, Martin Boyne, Kurt A. Raaflaub, Desmond J. Conacher, Brad Levett, Stephen R. Cavan, Kelly MacFarlane, Riemer Faber, Bryan Reardon
Classics Transformed: Schools, Universities and Society in England, 1830-1960 1998 Christopher Stray
Dalla scena tragica al palcoscenico Lirico: l'Edipo re di Giovacchino Forzano e Ruggero Leoncavallo 2002 Simone Beta
Dance Theatre Journal. Vol.22.2 2007 Fiona Macintosh
Dietsche Warande & Belfort. Vol.4 (August 2002) 2002 Bart Philipsen, Christine D'Haen, Clark Clarysse, Dieter Lesage, Erwin Jans, Freddy Decreus, Geert Sels, Hans Groenewegen, Jan Bosteels, Jan Ritsema, Klaas Tindemans, Luk van den Dries, Mark Baltser, Paul Claes, Peter Verhelst, Saskia de Coster, Stefan Hertmans, Tom Kesenne, Yves T'Sjoen
Dionisis Fotopoulos - Scenografo 2002 Dionysis Fotopoulos
Dioniso: Annale della Fondazione INDA. Vol.1 (new series) 2002
Dioniso: Annale della Fondazione INDA. Vol.2 (new series) 2003 Antoine Garapon, Ariane Mnouchkine, Eugenio Barba, Giancarlo Sammartano, Peter Stein
Dionysus Since 69: Greek Tragedy at the Dawn of the Third Millennium 2004 Amanda Wrigley, David Wiles, Edith Hall, Erika Fischer-Lichte, Fiona Macintosh, Froma I. Zeitlin, Helene Foley, Katharine Worth, Kathleen Riley, Lorna Hardwick, Oliver Taplin, Pantelis Michelakis, Peter G. McC. Brown, Timberlake Wertenbaker
Dodelijke Dikke Wolken 1992 Rudi van der Paardt, Freddy Decreus
Drama, 1945-1950 1951 J. C. Trewin
Drama: The Quarterly Theatre Review. No.123 (Winter 1976) 1976
Edipo Rey 1992 Francisco R. Adrados
Edippo Tragedia 1565 Giovanni Andrea dell'Anguillara
Edippo Tragedia 1565 Giovanni Andrea dell'Anguillara
Eirene. Vol.37 2001 Spiridon D. Siropoulos, Jan Bouzek, Lorna Hardwick, Jan Bazant, Eva Sormova, Eva Stehlíková, Dasa Ciripova
Engagements with Greek Drama and Homeric Epic on BBC Radio in the 1940s and 1950s 2009 Amanda Wrigley
Epidaurus. The Ancient Theater and the Performances 2004 Savas Gogos, Kostas Ch. Myris AKA Georgousopoulos
Exploring European Identities and Ideologies by means of [Re]presentations of Ancient Drama: Media : Greek Tragedy and Film 2009
Gilbert Murray OM, 1866-1957 1987 Archibald Duncan Wilson
Goddess: The Classical Mode 2003 Harold Koda
Greek Studies in England, 1700-1830 1986 M. L. Clarke
Greek Tragedy and the British Theatre, 1660-1914 2005 Edith Hall, Fiona Macintosh
Greek Tragedy into Film 1986 Kenneth Mackinnon
Greek Tragedy on the American Stage: Ancient Drama in the Commercial Theater, 1882-1994 1995 Karelisa V. Hartigan
Greek up North: a study of Northern Broadsides' productions of ancient drama 2014 Helen Eastman
Greek Vicenza: Oedipus Rex and the Olympic Theatre (Vicence à la grecque: Oedipe roi et le Théâtre Olimpico) 2007 Martina Treu
Griechisches Theater in Antike und Gegenwart: Das Würzburger Ödipus-Projekt des Mainfranken Theaters und der Universität 2006 Ulrich Sinn
History of Greek Play Production in American Colleges and Universities from 1881 to 1936 1938 Domis Edward Pluggé
I Metafrase tou Archaiou Hellenikou Dramatos se Oles tis Glosses tou Kosmou [The Translation of Ancient Greek Drama in All the Languages of the World] 1998 Elena Patrikiou, Platon Mavromoustakos
Il Gioco della Scena Tragica: esperienze umane e teatrali degli studenti … 2004 Francesca Nenci
Illustrated Encyclopaedia of World Theatre 1977 Martin Esslin (1918-2002)
Inszenierung der Antike: das Griechische Drama auf der Bühne der Neuzeit 1991 Hellmut Flashar
International Journal of the Classical Tradition. Vol.12.2 (Fall 2005) 2005 Amanda Wrigley, Isobel Hurst, Theodore Ziolkowski
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100 years of the Classical Club Flyer
7.30 The Theban Plays Listing
A conversation with Thouli Misirloglou about “Mount Olympus” Print-out
Article: Heroic Puppets from Oedipus Rex Print-out
ATER - ERT / Edipo Tiranno Programme
Burns Mantle Yearbooks Book
Card from Chung King Fai to Mae Smethurst Correspondence
CD - with Fragments from Mythos CD
CDR - Digital Images of Kings Langley Players DVD
Chori per Edippo [sic] Tiranno per l'inaugurazione del Teatro Olimpico, 1585; Schola S. Rocco CD
Description - Mythos Print-out
Die Aufführung griechischer Dramen am Akademischen Gymnasium in Wien Photocopy
Electra / Oedipus Rex / Dionysus Booklet
Greek tragedy on film: Oedipus the King Cast list & credits
Illustration: Sketches from tableaux of scenes from Greek plays Newspaper cutting
Ion Newspaper cutting
King Oedipus Leaflet
King's Visualisation Lab video output for Masks Conference - 2 discs DVD
Letter re. Thebes Handwritten letter
Listing of Greek tragedy productions by time periods Listing
Mini Documentary: Spettacoli Classici Teatro Greco di Siracusa 1914 - 1948 DVD
Montreal Gazette - Young Vic opens by Butcher's Shop Print-out
Mr Martin-Harvey as Oedipus Rex Postcard
New series: 8.30 The Theban Plays by Sophocles Newspaper cutting
NFT 50: Edipo Alcalde (Mayor Oedipus) Cast list & credits
Night Journey - recording included on DVD of Martha Graham in Performance DVD
Ninagawa's Works (in Japan) Production chronology
NT education worksheet: The Darker Face of the Earth Print-out
Oedipus Leaflet
Oedipus & Antigone Programme
Oedipus - DVD of opera DVD
Oedipus - The Cracked Pot
Oedipus and The Critic: New Theatre Programme
Oedipus at Colonos - side III Audiotape
Oedipus by Sophocles Programme Print-out
Oedipus Now: Film Review Journal Photocopy
Oedipus Rex Programme
Oedipus Rex Photograph
Oedipus Rex Postcard
Oedipus Rex mask designs Postcard
Oedipus Rex programme Photocopy
Oedipus the King Programme
Oedipus the King [tape 2] Audiotape
Oedipus Tyrannus Programme
Oedpius Direct: TLS Review Newspaper article
Payvand Theatre - information Print-out
Plenty to shout about Newspaper cutting
Programme: Agamemnon 1949 Programme
Programme: Oedipus (2004) Programme
Programme: Oedipus Tyrannus Programme