Oedipus the King

Contributors

Contributor Contribution Main contributor
Sophocles AKA Sophokles
Original id: 
540
Languages: 
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
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Production First performed Venues
Oedipus Rex University Theater (Washington, District of Columbia, United States)
Edipo
Greek unknown venue (Glasgow, Glasgow City, Scotland)
Oedipe Roi Théâtre des Champs-Elysées (Paris, Île-de-France, France)
Oedipe Roi Comédie Française (Paris, Île-de-France, France)
Oedipus Rex Teatro Julio Prieto Xola (Mexico City, The Federal District, Mexico)
Oedipus Rex unknown venue (Gibellina, Sicily, Italy)
Oedipus Rex Bohrupee (Calcutta, Bengal, India)
Oedipus University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, Glasgow City, Scotland)
Oedipus the King unknown venue (Cambridge, County of Cambridgeshire, England), Guildhall School of Music and Drama (London, Greater London, England)
Oedipus Brooksby Melton College (Melton Mowbray, County of Leicestershire, England)
Oedipus the King & at Colonus University of Hawaii at Manoa (Honolulu, Hawaii, United States)
Oedipus Tyrannus
Oedipus Kourion Ancient Theatre (Cyprus)
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)
Oedipus (1678 - 1679) 1678 Dorset Garden Theatre (London, Greater London, England)
Oedipus, King of Thebes (1692) 1692 British Museum, Lecture Theatre (London, Greater London, England)
Oedipus, King of Thebes (1696) 1696 Lincoln's Inn Fields (London, Greater London, England)
Oedipus Tyrannus (1714) 1714 Mile End Green (London, Greater London, England)
Oedipe (1718) 1718 Comédie Française (Paris, Île-de-France, France)
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)
Edippo (1729) 1729 Hoftheater (Munich, Free State of Bavaria, Germany)
Oedipus, King of Thebes (1729 - 1740) 1729 Lincoln's Inn Fields (London, Greater London, England)
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)
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)
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)
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 Contributors Year Relationship
Oedipus Tyrannus Sir John T. Sheppard AKA J. Sheppard Translation
König Ödipus Wolfgang Schadewaldt Translation
Oidipous Tyrannos Kostas Ch. Myris AKA Georgousopoulos Translation
Edipo Tiranno Edoardo Sanguineti Translation
Oedipus the King Thomas Francklin Translation
Oedipus Tyrannus John Savill Faucit
Oidipous Qu Xiaosong Adaptation
Blood Lars Norèn Adaptation
Król Edyp Marcin Sosnowski Translation
Oedipus the King Paul Roche Translation
König Oedipus Ernst Buschor Translation
Oedipus Stefaan Van den Broeck Adaptation
Oedipus the King Duncan Steen
Oedipus the King Don Taylor Translation
Oracles Andy Wolk Distant relative
Oedipus Rex Philip Vellacott Translation
Oedipus Paul Wignall Adaptation
Oedipe Voltaire Adaptation
The Return of the Absent Fawzi Fahmi Adaptation
Delphi, Texas Zachary Dunbar Distant relative
King Oedipus Reza Abdoh Adaptation
Oidipous Oidipous Harry Mulisch Adaptation
Oidipous the King Greg McCart Translation
Oidipous, Royal Baby Rob de Graaf Adaptation
Bêt Noir Jan Decorte Adaptation
Oidipoes / Kommentaar Johan Boonen Translation
Edipo Alcalde [The Mayor Oedipus] Gabriel García Márquez, Stella Malagon, Orlando Senna Adaptation
Teiresias Henry Bertram Lister Distant relative
Oedipus Rex Constantine A. Trypanis Translation
Oedipus Rex Mutsuo Takahashi Adaptation
Le Gouteur [The Taster] Geneviève Billette Distant relative
Chief Swollen Foot Andrew Loudon Adaptation
Oidipous Tyrannos Fotos Politis Translation
Oedipus the King Peter Meineck, Paul Woodruff Translation
Król Edyp Stefan Srebrny Translation
Król Edyp Kazimierez Kaszewski Translation
Oedipus Rex Aharon Shabtai Translation
Oidipus and Antigone Kārlis Auškāps Adaptation
Œdipe Roi Jules Lacroix Translation
Edipo Rey José María Peman Adaptation
The Œdipus Tyrannus John Harrower Translation
Oedipe Roi Th. Maulnier Adaptation
Oidipous Tyrannos Kostas Zaroukas Translation
Oedipus Rex Clare Venables Adaptation
Omma: Oedipus and the Luck of Thebes Kenneth McLeish Cut and paste
Oedipus the King Kenneth McLeish Translation
Oedipus Keith Scales Adaptation
Oedipus Helen McCabe Adaptation
Oedipus Peter Montgomery Translation
The Roman Empress William Joyner Distant relative

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