Oedipus the King (1926)

Original id:

649

Start date:

7 December 1926

Degree of relationship to ancient play:

Translation

Production notes:

This production was revived in 1927, 1929, 1931, and 1933 at the Abbey Theatre. The actors playing Oedipus and Jocasta were husband and wife.

Media of production:

Stage-play

Languages:

English

Companies:

Ancient works:

Information related to this production

Script	Author(s)
Oedipus the King	Sophocles AKA Sophokles
King Oedipus (1926)	William Butler Yeats

Venue	Festival	Dates	Notes
Abbey Theatre (Dublin, Munster, Republic of Ireland)		7 December, 1926

Source	Format	Location if held at the APGRD	Pagination
The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy	Book	library	297, 304
Medea	Programme	archive
Seamus Heaney, Colonialism, and the Cure: Sophoclean Re-Visions	Print-out	archive
Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics. Vol.11.2 (Fall 2003)	Journal	library	140	351
Dionysus Since 69: Greek Tragedy at the Dawn of the Third Millennium	Book	library	268, 372
The Burial at Thebes	Programme	archive
Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics. Vol.13.1 (Spring/Summer 2005)	Journal	library	23	790
Theatre Arts Monthly	Journal	archive	216

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