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3.99. 67,132 ratings2,466 reviews. ‘O Light! May I never look on you again, Revealed as I am, sinful in my begetting, Sinful in marriage, sinful in shedding of blood!’. The legends surrounding the royal house of Thebes inspired Sophocles (496–406 BC) to create a powerful trilogy of mankind’s struggle against fate.
The Theban Plays. by Sophocles. THE LITERARY WORKS. Plays set in Thebes during the thirteenth century bce; written in Greek in the early 400s bce— Antigone c. 442 bce (or, some argue, the 430s bce), Oedipus the King probably 10 to 15 years later, and Oedipus at Colonus c, 405 bce. SYNOPSIS.
Antigone was probably the first of the three Theban plays that Sophocles wrote, although the events dramatized in it happen last. Antigone is one of the first heroines in literature, a woman who fights against a male power structure, exhibiting greater bravery than any of the men who scorn her.
King Oedipus tells of a man who brings pestilence to Thebes for crimes he does not realise he has committed, and then inflicts a brutal punishment upon himself. With profound insights into the human condition, it is a devastating portrayal of a ruler brought down by his own oath.
The Theban Plays Series by Sophocles. 3 primary works • 4 total works. The Theban plays comprise three plays: Oedipus Rex (also called Oedipus Tyrannus or Oedipus the King), Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone. All three concern the fate of Thebes during and after the reign of King Oedipus.
About The Theban Plays. The legends surrounding Oedipus of Thebes and his ill-fated offspring provide the subject matter for Sophocles’ three greatest plays, which together represent Greek drama at the pinnacle of its achievement.
The Theban Plays by Sophocles: With John Shrapnel, Juliet Stevenson, Donald Eccles, Robert Eddison. A trilogy of plays detailing the tragic fate of Oedipus and his children, as well as his scheming and tyrannical brother-in-law Creon.
