Oedipus the King

Click here for a readers' theater version of the play, courtesy of PBS.  It's only 11 pages, and it's a fair introduction of the story.  Please read this in preparation for our class work.

Here is a translation of the complete play.

Here is a fun and intelligent. website that contains some thought-provoking stuff about Oedipus and some other long-dead Greeks.

If you're game, there is a version of the play available on YouTube in 14 parts.  This version stars the brilliant Canadian actor Christopher Plummer.