Oedipus (1678 - 1679)

Original id:

746

Start date:

1 January 1678

End date:

31 December 1679

Degree of relationship to ancient play:

Adaptation

Production notes:

First performed around November/December 1678 at the Dorset Garden Theatre in London, John Dryden's and Nathaniel Lee's Oedipus is considered one of the most influential adaptations of the early modern period.

Media of production:

Stage-play

Languages:

English

Companies:

Duke's Company

Ancient works:

Oedipus the King, Oedipus

Script	Author(s)
Oedipus the King	Sophocles AKA Sophokles
Œdipus: A Tragedy	John Dryden
Oedipus	Seneca

Person	Role	Notes
Thomas Betterton	Actor	Oedipus
Mary Betterton	Actor	Jocasta
John Crosby	Actor	Haemon
Henry Harris	Actor	Tiresias
Mary Lee	Actor	Eurydice
Samuel Sandford	Actor	Creon
William Smith	Actor	Adrastus

Venue	Festival	Dates	Notes
Dorset Garden Theatre (London, Greater London, England)

Source	Format	Location if held at the APGRD	Pagination
Greek Tragedy and the British Theatre, 1660-1914	Book	library	1, 17, 558
The London Stage, 1660-1800: A Calendar of Plays, Entertainments & Afterpieces …	Book	library	1.273
Talfourd's Ancient Greeks in the Theatre of Reform	Offprint	archive	284n6
Ancient Scripts and Modern Experience on the English Stage, 1500-1700	Book	library	57, 92, 94, 249-257
The Works of John Dryden	Photocopy	archive
Medea in Performance, 1500-2000	Book	library	56, 59, 73
Greek Tragedy and the British Stage, 1566-1997	Print-out	archive	116
Dionysus Since 69: Greek Tragedy at the Dawn of the Third Millennium	Book	library	316, 371
Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus	Book	library	53-64.

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