 However, in his "Poetics", Aristotle considered "Oedipus Rex" to be the tragedy which best matched his prescription for how drama should be made.Many modern critics agree with Aristotle on the quality of "Oedipus Rex", even if they don't always agree on the reasons.For example, Richard Claverhouse Jebb claimed that "The "Oedipus Tyrannus" is in one sense the masterpiece of Attic tragedy.