Oedipus the King

Abridged
Author: Sophocles
Narrator: Michael Sheen
Genres: Fiction, Literature
Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks Ltd.
Date: August 1999
Length: 1 hour, 42 minutes
Ratings:
  • Book Rating: 5/5
Formats:
  • CD
  • WMA

Overview

The great masterpiece on which Aristotle based his aesthetic theory of drama in the Poetics and from which Freud derived the Oedipus complex. King Oedipus puts out a sentence on the unknown murderer of his father Laius. By a gradual unfolding of incidents, Oedipus learns that he was the assassin and that Jocasta, his wife, is also his mother.

Reviews (2)

Oedipus the King

Written by Anonymous from Houston, TX on May 22nd, 2007

  • Book Rating: 4/5

This is an English stage play and is done very well.

Oedipus the King

Written by Anonymous on October 18th, 2006

  • Book Rating: 5/5

A magnificent work, an extraordinary performance!!!