In Dryden and Lee's version of this work, they add a sleep-walking scene which resembles the one in Macbeth.
In Dryden and Lee's version of this work, they add a sleep-walking scene which resembles the one in Macbeth. Hofmannsthal's version includes a second title character and thus shares its title with a painting by Ingres on the same theme. In addition to Gide's darkly comic existentialist version, Corneille's version of this play attempts to maintain the bienseance of his time by exonerating both (*) kings of the killing of Laius. Cocteau's treatment of this play introduces the Egyptian god Anubis and the description "the bitch that sings" refers to the winged creature that is killing the people of Thebes and is titled The Infernal Machine. For 10 points, name this Sophocles play wherein the title character blinds himself on the broaches of Jocasta's dress.
In Dryden and Lee's version of this work, they add a sleep-walking scene which resembles the one in Macbeth.
{Oedipus Rex} [or {Oedipus the King} or {Oedipus Tyrannos}]