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Prior to the start of Oedipus Rex, Oedipus has become the king of Thebes while unwittingly fulfilling a prophecy that he would kill his father, Laius (the previous king), and marry his mother, Jocasta (whom Oedipus took as his queen after solving the riddle of the Sphinx). The action of Sophocles's play concerns Oedipus's search for the ...
Examples include the final section (lines 908–1077) of Aeschylus' The Persians (472 BCE) in which Xerxes laments the defeat of his Persian army, the final appearance of Antigone in Sophocles' Antigone (c.442 BCE), the interaction between the chorus and Oedipus when he returns having blinded himself in Sophocles' Oedipus Rex (c.429 BCE), and ...
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Believing that a recent (1957) film adaptation of Sophocles' play Oedipus Rex had failed at the box office because it did not have such a song, he wrote this one in ragtime style. [12] It was also a reference to the popularity of Freudian psychoanalysis and the Oedipus complex in popular culture in the 1940s and 1950s in the United States. [12]
Oedipus, title page of the play " Music for a While " is a da capo aria for voice (usually soprano or tenor ), harpsichord and bass viol by the English Baroque composer Henry Purcell . Based on a repeating ground bass pattern, it is the second of four movements from his incidental music ( Z 583) to Oedipus , a version of Sophocles' play by John ...
Many of their other songs contain some lines in Latin, have a Latin name and/or are supported by a choir singing in Latin. Rhapsody of Fire – Ira Tenax; Rotting Christ: Sanctus Diavolos: Visions of a Blind Order, Sanctimonius, Sanctus Diavolos; Theogonia: Gaia Telus, Rege Diabolicus; Κατά τον δαίμονα εαυτού: Grandis ...
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Oedipus Rex, a film version of the Canadian Stratford Festival production, using the William Butler Yeats text; Oedipus Rex, an Italian film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini; Oedipus Rex, a song by Tom Lehrer from the album An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer; Oedipus the King, 1968 film directed by Philip Saville