Category: Book Oedipus The King

Informal Discussions of Oedipus the King Discussion of the play Oedipus the King should be preceded by the notice that the plot for this play was not invented by Sophocles. On the contrary, the story was well-known to Greek audience and probably for this reason it was so popular. The story of king Oedipus served…

The play is based on the myth about Oedipus, which was well-known to the ancient Greeks. But Sophocles reinterprets the myth in his own way. Understanding that the audience knows the ending well enough, he changes the accent from the final tragedy to the feelings of Oedipus himself, showing how he, acting as a noble…