description: Washington Square Press Enriched Classics make great literature even more accessible to a new generation of readers, with expanded and updated reader's supplements and essential historical information. Oedipus the King is the 2000-year-old masterpiece that raises basic questions about human behavior that are still vigorously debated by students and scholars. Photos and illustrations. (Poetry/Plays)
language: English
title: Oedipus King
titlecomplete: Oedipus King
characters: Tiresias, Oedipus, Creon, Jocasta (Greek Mythology), Sphinx (Greek mythology)
genres: High School, Tragedy, Fiction, Plays, Literature, Read For School, Mythology, School, Theatre, Classics
ratings_count: 209098
places: Thebes, Greece
series: The Theban Plays
publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group