Oedipus the King (1881)

Original id: 
645
Start date: 
17 May 1881
End date: 
20 May 1881
Degree of relationship to ancient play: 
Original language
Production notes: 
This play 'was witnessed by six thousand people'. Following the success of this production the production was revived, in English translation, with the same actor in the leading role on the commercial stage the following year (ID 6372).
Media of production: 
Stage-play
Languages: 
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Information related to this production

Person Role Notes
Curtis Guild Actor Teiresias
G. M. Lane Actor Shepherd of Laius
W. H. Manning Actor Priest of Zeus
Frank D. Millett Costume Designer
Henry Norman Actor Creon
Charles Eliot Norton Designer
Mr L. E. Opdycke Actor Jocasta
John Knowles Paine Composer
George Riddle Actor Oedipus
A. W. Roberts Actor First Messenger
John William White Director
Owen Wister Actor Second Messenger
Venue Festival Dates Notes
University of Harvard (Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States) 17 May, 1881 to 19 May, 1981 in the Sanders Theatre
Source Format Location if held at the APGRD Pagination
Greek Tragedy on the American Stage: Ancient Drama in the Commercial Theater, 1882-1994 Book library 7
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The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy Book library 291-292
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Living Greek Theatre: A Handbook of Classical Performance and Modern Production Book library 332
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An Account of the Harvard Greek Play Photocopy library ix,
Classics Transformed: Schools, Universities and Society in England, 1830-1960 Book library 157 n.44
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A century of English ritual Newspaper cutting archive
Omnibus. Issue 04 (November 1982) Journal library 13
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Pasi tois theomenois chairein Photocopy archive
Harvard Alumni Bulletin Photocopy archive
Reception Studies Book library 60
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Leonard Bernstein: The Harvard Years, 1935-1939 Book library 72, 88
The American Theater: A Sum of Its Parts Book library 345
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