Oedipus Rex 1

Synopsis: Sir Tyrone Guthrie directs a version of ‘Oedipus Rex’ using W B Yest’s translation. Here, the actors wear masks, thus performing their roles just as the Greeks did in Sophocles’ time.
Language: English
Country: United States
Medium: Video; Videocassette. VHS (NTSC). col. 90 min.
Year of production: 1957
Availability: Sale; 2000 sale: US$149.00 (+p&p)
Subjects: Classical studies; Drama
Keywords: drama - classical; Greece - classical; performances; Sophocles; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939)

Director

Abraham Polonsky; Tyrone Guthrie

Producer

Leonio Kipnis

Writer

Sophocles

Contributor

William Butler Yeats

Cast

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