Oedipus (1559 - 1563)

Original id: 
169
Start date: 
1 December 1559
End date: 
31 December 1563
Degree of relationship to ancient play: 
Adaptation
Production notes: 
Neville completed his English translation (that is actually a free adaptation) in 1560, when he was an undergraduate at Trinity College, in Cambridge. His text was probably used for a production of Oedipus and staged (together with the Hecuba) (ID 4083) in 1559-60 in Cambridge. Smith reports that the production had cost 13 shillings 4 pence (p. 205). Neville’s Oedipus was first printed in 1563, then collected nearly twenty years later by Thomas Newton in his famous "Seneca, his Tenne Tragedies Translated into Englysh" (1581).
Media of production: 
Stage-play
Languages: 
English

How to cite this production

Oedipus (1559 - 1563), accessed at http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/productions/production/169 <24 April 2024>