Oedipus the King

Contributors

Contributor Contribution Main contributor
Sophocles AKA Sophokles
Original id: 
540
Languages: 
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
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Information related to this script

Production First performed Venues
Oedipus Rex (1912) 1912 Royal Opera House (London, Greater London, England)
Oedipus Rex (1912) 1912 unknown venue (Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic)
Oedipus (1912) 1912 unknown venue (Paris, Île-de-France, France)
Król Edyp (1912) 1912 Teatr Wielki (Warszaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland)
The Legend of Oedipus (1912) 1912 Chateau Vallon (France)
Oedipus Tyrannus (1912) 1912 unknown venue (Cambridge, County of Cambridgeshire, England)
Oedipus Rex (1913) 1913 Royal Cairo Opera House (1869-1971) (Cairo, Muḩāfaz̧at al Qāhirah, Egypt)
Oedipus Tyrannus (1913) 1913
Oedipus Tyrannus (1913) 1913 University of Washington (Seattle, Washington, United States)
Oedipus Tyrannus (1913) 1913 Randolph-Macon Women's College (Lynchburg, Virginia, United States)
Oedipus (1913) 1913 unknown venue (Holland)
Oedipus Rex (1913) 1913 Garden Theatre (New York City, New York, United States)
Oedipus (1913) 1913 unknown venue (Berlin, Land Berlin, Germany)
Oedipus Tyrannus (1914) 1914
Král Oidipus (1914) 1914 Divadlo Umění, Theatre of Arts (Prague, Hlavní město Praha, Czech Republic)
König Oedipus (1914) 1914 Metropolitan Opera House (New York City, New York, United States)
Oedipus Tyrannus (1914) 1914 His Majesty's Theatre (Aberdeen, Aberdeen City, Scotland)
Oedipus Rex (1915) 1915 Isadora Duncan's studio (New York City, New York, United States), Century Opera House (New York City, New York, United States)
Oedipus Rex (1916) 1916 unknown venue (Japan)
Oedipus Tyrannus (1918) 1918 University of Delaware (Newark, Delaware, United States)
Oedipus Rex (1918) 1918 Molodoi Theatre, Young Theatre (Kiev, Misto Kyyiv, Ukraine)
Oedipus Tyrannus (1918) 1918 Radley College (Abingdon, County of Oxfordshire, England)
Oedipe, roi de Thèbes (1919) 1919 Cirque d'Hiver (Paris, Île-de-France, France)
Oidipous Tyrannos (1919) 1919 Theatro Olympia (Athens, Attica, Greece)
Edipo re (1920) 1920 Opera Theatre (Chicago, State of Illinois, United States)
Oedipus (1920) 1920 Chateau Vallon (France)
Oidipous Tyrannos (1921) 1921 unknown venue (Crete, Greece)
Oedipus Rex (1921) 1921 Ivan Franko Theatre (Cherkasy, Cherkas’ka Oblast’, Ukraine)
Oidipous Tyrannos (1921) 1921 Theatro Sporting Club (İzmir, İzmir, Turkey)
Oedipus Tyrannus (1921) 1921 Radley College (Abingdon, County of Oxfordshire, England)
Oedipus Rex (1921) 1921 unknown venue (Slovenia)
König Ödipus (1922) 1922 unknown venue (Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany)
Edipo Re (1922) 1922 Ancient Theatre of Syracuse, Teatro Greco (Syracuse, Sicily, Italy)
Oedipus the King (1922) 1922
The Œdipus Tyrannus (1922) 1922 Music Hall (Aberdeen, Aberdeen City, Scotland)
Oedipus (1923) 1923 unknown venue (Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany)
Oedipus Tyrannus (1923) 1923 ADC Theatre, Amateur Dramatic Club (Cambridge, County of Cambridgeshire, England), Chiswick Empire (London, Greater London, England)
Oidipus (1923) 1923 Mestske Divadlo (Plzeň, Plzeňský kraj, Czech Republic)
Oidipous Tyrannos (1923) 1923 unknown venue (Greece)
Adipose Wrecks (1923) 1923 University of Aberdeen (Aberdeen, Aberdeen City, Scotland)
Oidipous Tyrannos (1923) 1923 Theatro Odeion (Athens, Attica, Greece)
Oedipus Rex (1923) 1923 Century Theatre (New York City, New York, United States), Opera House (Boston, Massachusetts, United States)
Oedipus, King of Thebes (1924) 1924 University of California (Los Angeles, State of California, United States)
Œdipus, King of Thebes (1924) 1924 Oxford Playhouse, Woodstock Road, The Red Barn, Fagan’s Playhouse Theatre (Oxford, County of Oxfordshire, England)
Oedipus Rex (1924) 1924 Ivan Franko Theatre (Kharkov, Kharkivs’ka Oblast’, Ukraine)
Oidipous Tyrannos (1924 - 1925) 1924 Theatro Marika Kotopouli (Athens, Attica, Greece), Demotiko Theatro, Municipal Theatre (Vólos, Thessaly, Greece)
Oidipous Tyrannos (1925) 1925 Theatro Kentrikon, Central Theatre (Athens, Attica, Greece)
Oedipe Roi (1925 - 1928) 1925 Comédie Française (Paris, Île-de-France, France)
Edipo Re (1925) 1925 unknown venue (Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany)
Oedipus, King of Thebes (1925) 1925 King's College (Taunton, County of Somerset, England)
Script Contributors Year Relationship
Oedipus Tyrannus Sir John T. Sheppard AKA J. Sheppard Translation
König Ödipus Wolfgang Schadewaldt Translation
Oidipous Tyrannos Kostas Ch. Myris AKA Georgousopoulos Translation
Edipo Tiranno Edoardo Sanguineti Translation
Oedipus the King Thomas Francklin Translation
Oedipus Tyrannus John Savill Faucit
Oidipous Qu Xiaosong Adaptation
Blood Lars Norèn Adaptation
Król Edyp Marcin Sosnowski Translation
Oedipus the King Paul Roche Translation
König Oedipus Ernst Buschor Translation
Oedipus Stefaan Van den Broeck Adaptation
Oedipus the King Duncan Steen
Oedipus the King Don Taylor Translation
Oracles Andy Wolk Distant relative
Oedipus Rex Philip Vellacott Translation
Oedipus Paul Wignall Adaptation
Oedipe Voltaire Adaptation
The Return of the Absent Fawzi Fahmi Adaptation
Delphi, Texas Zachary Dunbar Distant relative
King Oedipus Reza Abdoh Adaptation
Oidipous Oidipous Harry Mulisch Adaptation
Oidipous the King Greg McCart Translation
Oidipous, Royal Baby Rob de Graaf Adaptation
Bêt Noir Jan Decorte Adaptation
Oidipoes / Kommentaar Johan Boonen Translation
Edipo Alcalde [The Mayor Oedipus] Gabriel García Márquez, Stella Malagon, Orlando Senna Adaptation
Teiresias Henry Bertram Lister Distant relative
Oedipus Rex Constantine A. Trypanis Translation
Oedipus Rex Mutsuo Takahashi Adaptation
Le Gouteur [The Taster] Geneviève Billette Distant relative
Chief Swollen Foot Andrew Loudon Adaptation
Oidipous Tyrannos Fotos Politis Translation
Oedipus the King Peter Meineck, Paul Woodruff Translation
Król Edyp Stefan Srebrny Translation
Król Edyp Kazimierez Kaszewski Translation
Oedipus Rex Aharon Shabtai Translation
Oidipus and Antigone Kārlis Auškāps Adaptation
Œdipe Roi Jules Lacroix Translation
Edipo Rey José María Peman Adaptation
The Œdipus Tyrannus John Harrower Translation
Oedipe Roi Th. Maulnier Adaptation
Oidipous Tyrannos Kostas Zaroukas Translation
Oedipus Rex Clare Venables Adaptation
Omma: Oedipus and the Luck of Thebes Kenneth McLeish Cut and paste
Oedipus the King Kenneth McLeish Translation
Oedipus Keith Scales Adaptation
Oedipus Helen McCabe Adaptation
Oedipus Peter Montgomery Translation
The Roman Empress William Joyner Distant relative

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