A character in this play screams "Unhappy bed!
This play was adapted to the milieu of a guerrilla war in a 1996 Colombian film with a screenplay by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Three different groups' responses to a test question inquiring about if and how this play attempts to justify the ways of God to man are analyzed in E.R. Dodds's essay "On Misunderstanding" this play. This play opens with the protagonist confronting a crowd carrying wool-wrapped olive branches, while it ends with a warning not to consider a man "blessed in his life" until he is (*) dead. A character in this play screams "Unhappy bed! Twice wicked soil!" before committing suicide, after which her son takes the golden brooches from her dress. The anagnorisis of this play is brought by a messenger from Corinth, who reveals that Merope is not the protagonist's mother. For 10 points, name this Sophocles play about a ruler of Thebes who accidentally commits patricide and incest.
This play was adapted to the milieu of a guerrilla war in a 1996 Colombian film with a screenplay by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Oedipus Rex [or Oedipus the King; or Oedipus Tyrannus]