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  2. Oedipus Rex (1967 film) - Wikipedia

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    Oedipus Rex (Edipo re) is a 1967 Italian film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. [1] Pasolini adapted the screenplay from the Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex written by Sophocles in 428 BC. The film was mainly shot in Morocco. It was presented in competition at the 28th Venice International Film Festival.

  3. Oedipus Rex - Wikipedia

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    Oedipus Rex is widely regarded as one of the greatest plays, stories, and tragedies ever written. [21] [22] In 2015, when The Guardian ' s theatre critic Michael Billington, selected what he thinks are the 101 greatest plays ever written, Oedipus Rex was placed second, just after The Persians. [23]

  4. Oedipus the King (film) - Wikipedia

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    Oedipus the King is a 1968 British film adaptation of the Sophoclean tragedy Oedipus Rex, directed and co-written by Philip Saville.It stars Christopher Plummer as the title character, Orson Welles as Tiresias, Lilli Palmer as Jocasta, Richard Johnson as Creon and Donald Sutherland as the leading member of the Chorus, though the latter's voice was dubbed by Valentine Dyall.

  5. Tragic hero - Wikipedia

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    Oedipus, a figure commonly considered a tragic hero. A tragic hero (or sometimes tragic heroine if they are female) is the protagonist of a tragedy.In his Poetics, Aristotle records the descriptions of the tragic hero to the playwright and strictly defines the place that the tragic hero must play and the kind of man he must be.

  6. Category:Films based on Oedipus Rex - Wikipedia

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    Oedipus Rex (1967 film) Oedipus the King (film) This page was last edited on 20 July 2023, at 14:37 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...

  7. List of films based on Greek drama - Wikipedia

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    TV movie, Canada Les Perses: 1961 TV movie, France Aeschylus: 1967 TV movie, Finland ... Oedipus Rex 1909 Oedipus Rex 1911 Oedipus Rex: 1957 Antigone 1960 Acosados, Los

  8. Oedipus Rex (1957 film) - Wikipedia

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    Oedipus Rex is a 1957 film, a film version of the Canadian Stratford Festival production of the William Butler Yeats adaptation of the play Oedipus Rex by Sophocles. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The actors performed wearing masks designed by Tanya Moiseiwitsch , [ 4 ] as was the practice in Ancient Greek theatre .

  9. Oedipus (Dryden play) - Wikipedia

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    The heroic drama Oedipus: A Tragedy, is an adaption of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, written by John Dryden and Nathaniel Lee. After being licensed in 1678 and published in 1679, it became a huge success on stage during the Restoration period.