[ noun ] (Greek mythology) a tragic king of Thebes who unknowingly killed his father Laius and married his mother Jocasta; the subject of the drama `Oedipus Rex' by Sophocles <noun.person>
In ancient times an oracle condemned Oedipus and God tested Job; today, men drive themselves to despair.
Anthony Rolfe Johnson was the sensitive Oedipus, genuinely moving at the end.
Lee Breuer, Liza Lorwin and Bob Telson, who developed "The Gospel at Colonus," which told the Oedipus story in gospel music and drew parallels with Jesus, produced. Breuer directed.
Robert Lindsay was Oedipus; Dorothy Tutin, Jocasta; Paul Daneman, Creon; beside these, I admired the Corinthian and Theban shepherds of David Ryall and Cyril Shaps, their speech so ably contrasted with the magisterial delivery of the higher-ups.
The best thing about Allen's "Oedipus Wrecks" is the title. After that, it's all down hill.
In "Oedipus the King" and the third play, "Antigone," Sir John Gielgud appears in top form as Teiresias, the blind seer who understands all too well why human beings do not wish to see.
To conjure up King Oedipus's unearthly cry of anguish, Olivier said he imagined the sound ermines make when they lick salt laid out by their hunters and their tongues stick to the ice.
"He's a sort of Judas," comments the gang's current leader in a remark that links Christian myth and the Oedipus complex.
The idea of this gospel musical is that a black Pentecostal preacher is taking as his text not a reading from the Bible but Sophocles' "Oedipus at Colonus."