LINKTV Journal February 11, 2014
The play for this program, oedipus tyrannus by sophocles. Now your host, mr. Jose ferrer. The play you are about to see is oedipus tyrannus or oedipus rex by sophocles. This play was first performed in athens in the theater of dionysus about 24 centuries ago. Aristotle, who might be called the first drama critic, considered it the perfect tragic drama. The rest of the world has more or less gone along with that down through the centuries. Sophocles wrote some 120 plays in his lifetime, but only 7 have survived. When his first play was chosen for competition, he was in his early 20s and he won ...