Oedipus Rex
By: by Sophocles, in a version by William Butler Yeats ; a Stratford Shakespearean Festival Foundation of Canada production ; directed by Tyrone Guthrie ; produced by Leonid Kipnis
Contributors: Campbell, Douglas, 1922-2009; Stuart, Eleanor; Rain, Douglas; Image Entertainment (Firm); Stratford Festival (Ont.)
Series: LIT 100 (NU course); TED 625 (NU course); TED 625a (NU course)
Publisher: Distributed by Image Entertainment
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 90
Subjects: Oedipus (Greek mythology); Drama; Feature films
Other titles: Sophocles' Oedipus Rex
Work titles: Oedipus Rex (Motion picture : 1957)
Description: The Stratford, Ontario, Shakespearean Festival Players, speaking through Greek masks, present the tragedy of Oedipus, who, having unwittingly slain his father and unknowingly married his mother, is driven by the plague that has swept through his kingdom to track down the evildoer who has polluted his land and its people.
Notes: DVD release of the 1957 motion picture.

Art director, Arthur Price ; photography, Roger Barlow ; music, Louis Applebaum, Cedric Davie.

Douglas Campbell, Eleanor Stuart, Douglas Rain.

DVD; Dolby digital, mono.