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    Oedipus Rex (Director's Playbook Edition)
    Oedipus Rex (Director's Playbook Edition)
    Oedipus Rex (Director's Playbook Edition)
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    Oedipus Rex (Director's Playbook Edition)

    By D. W. Hopkins Pty. Ltd.

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    Director's Playbook Editions help artists turn playscripts into productions, providing the interested reader with useful information, summaries and charts. As well as the full text, this book contains:
    *A 'Production Cheatsheet'
    *Information on the playwright
    *Descriptions of characters, setting, props, etc.
    *And more...

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    Sophocles' masterpiece is often considered the greatest of the surviving Athenian plays and is a timeless tragedy. Oedipus, King of the ailing city of Thebes, must track down the murderer of the former king to restore his city. Translation by F. Storr.

    Sophocles' timeless tragedy is often considered the greatest of the surviving Athenian plays.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherD. W. Hopkins Pty. Ltd.
    Release dateJan 24, 2017
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      Oedipus Rex (Director's Playbook Edition) - D. W. Hopkins Pty. Ltd.

      Oedipus Rex

      By Sophocles

      Director’s Playbook Edition

      This text belongs to D.W. Hopkins Pty. Ltd. and all content, unless otherwise stated, is licensed under the Commercial Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

      A copy of this license is available here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.

      Logos, front and back cover designs are protected by copyright and rights for use of the phrase ‘Director’s Playbook Edition’ are reserved by the owner.

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      Publisher’s Note

      We hope you enjoy this Director’s Playbook Edition! This series is produced with the aim to both share great plays with the interested reader and to prepare annotations for the artist looking to produce the play contained within. We offer these annotations as one possible interpretation of the playwright’s text that might be used as a springboard for the artist in making their own choices.

      The text of this book has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution license to allow you the option of re-using the material contained within to assist you in the preparation of your own production.

      The body of this book is also available as an audiobook through Audible.com and the Amazon Kindle store. This audiobook is Whispersync-for-Voice enabled, allowing you to listen to the text as you read and easily switch between reading and listening.

      If you enjoyed this Director’s Playbook Edition book, we ask you to please consider showing your support by purchasing the accompanying audiobook.

      Table of Contents

      Oedipus Rex

      By Sophocles

      Director’s Playbook Edition

      Publisher’s Note

      Introduction

      The Logline

      About the Playwright

      Production Cheatsheet

      Character Relationship Map

      Descriptions

      Character Descriptions (in Order of Appearance)

      The Setting

      Props

      About this Translation

      Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

      Dramatis Personae

      Oedipus Rex

      Glossary of Select Terms

      Bibliography

      Index of Character Appearances

      Introduction

      The Logline

      Oedipus is king of the ancient city of Thebes – a city that is dying. He soon learns that in order to restore it to the Gods favor, he must find and bring to justice the unknown murderer of its former king.

      About the Playwright

      Sophocles (c. 497/6 –406/5 BC) was a playwright in Ancient Greece. He is one of the three playwrights of that period with surviving works. During his lifetime he became the foremost playwright of Athens. He was born to a wealthy family and as well as playwriting was involved in political and ceremonial activities.

      His plays were performed in Athenian dramatic festivals. Oedipus Rex was written in his middle period, and although it is the first chronologically speaking of the three remaining ‘Theban plays’, it was written second (after Antigone and before Oedipus at Colonus). The ‘Theban plays’ – Sophocles’ surviving plays dealing with Thebes and the family of Oedipus -- were not originally written as a series, but today are often considered as a set.

      Production Cheatsheet

      Oedipus Rex, also known as Oedipus Tyrannus, or Oedipus the King, is an Ancient Greek tragedy written by Sophocles and was first performed around 429 BC. It is one of the three ‘Theban plays’, surviving plays by Sophocles involving the city and Oedipus’ reign.

      The setting of the play is the Ancient Greek city of Thebes.

      There are seven men and one woman with individual speaking roles in the play, as well as a Chorus. A boy, two girls and a group of citizens also appear in non-speaking roles. It can be performed by a minimum of ten actors without changes to the text and is typically performed by a cast size of over 14.

      The play follows the conventions of Ancient Greek plays of ‘unity of time and place’ (the action of the play is continuous and takes place in a single location) and has a Chorus (a group who act together as a single voice in the play and provide a commentary on the plays events). The strophe, antistrophe and epode have often been accompanied by music.

      This version is a translation into English of the original Greek text and is similarly written in verse.

      Character Relationship Map

      Descriptions

      Character Descriptions (in Order of Appearance)

      Chorus of Theban elders

      Senators of Thebes and

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