Oedipus, the Theban ruler, confronts a plague that’s killing the crops and causing widespread sterility. Death and destruction are closing in.

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For Oedipus’ subjects there will be no resolution to their crisis, the plague, without unity. The city must demonstrate to itself that the verdict is unanimous, that the verdict is believed by all.

Oedipus complex origins The complex is named after Oedipus Rex — a character in Sophocles’ tragic play. In the story, Oedipus Rex unknowingly kills his father and marries his mother.

Oedipus is posed after a second-century CE Roman statue of Hermes Fastening His Sandal and, in the words of art historian and curator Robert Rosenblum, “calmly but firmly confronts the monster.

But invest in Warchus and Shechter’s gnomic bombasticism and you’ll glimpse beyond mere shock value. Oedipus plays at the Old Vic until 29 March Photo Credits: Manuel Harlan ...

Oedipus, approaching Thebes fresh from the murder of Laius, guessed the answer. “Man,” he replied, “because he crawls on all fours as an infant, stands firmly on his two feet in his youth ...

Oedipus Complex Bold and intellectually stimulating, but also overly literal and dramatically languid, Frank Galati's "Oedipus Complex" adapts the famed Sophoclean tragedy by inserting Dr. Freud ...

Where Three Roads Meet, the new novel from British psychologist and fiction writer Sally Vickers, is set in the spring of 1923, and features an invented encounter between the ailing Sigmund Freud ...

Oedipus the King will be broadcast on 26 February 2017. A Radio 3 season will also feature essays from eminent writers about the A Clockwork Orange writer's work.