Sophocles Collection

ANTIGONE - CHORUS
Antigone the chorus of elders who comment dispassionately on the action

Sophocles - Greek playwright
Sophocles (495-406 BC) - Greek playwright. Sophocles wrote 120 plays during the course of his life, but only seven have survived in a complete form

The reconstructed opera house
The Reconstructed Royal Opera House at Covent Garden; For Professor Reinhardt's presentation of Oedipus. This greatest outcome of the Greek genius of Sophocles was translated by Professor Gilbert

Sophiocles - Cheesman
Sophocles (circa 496 - 406) Athenian playwright

Harvey as Oedipus Rex
OEDIPUS REX Martin Harvey as Oedipus Date: early 20th century

Sophocles - Marble bust
Sophocles (circa 496 - 406) Athenian playwright

Actress Mary Ann Yates as Electra
Mary Ann Yates (1728-1787) as Electra Date: 1777

Sheridan as Oedipus
THOMAS SHERIDAN actor in the role of Oedipus, in the play of that name by Sophocles : he was the father of Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Date: 1719 - 1788

Kemble as Oedipus
JOHN PHILIP KEMBLE the great classical actor as Sophocles Oedipus challenges Fate to find anyone as wretched as himself. Date: 1757 - 1823

Oedipus Tyrannus 1
Suppliants before the palace of Oedipus and Jocasta at Thebes

Oedipus Tyrannus 5
left, a messenger : right, Oedipus, having blinded himself, embraces his children, before taking to the roads as a wanderer with his daughter Antigone

Oedipus Tyrannus 4
Tiresias, blind soothsayer who foretells gloom and woe : a messenger from Corinth who brings bad news : a herdsman of Laius who has disquieting revelations

Oedipus Tyrannus 2
Chorus of Theban elders

Theatrephone
Thanks to the theatrephone, a Parisienne could listen to Verdis Falstaff or the Oedipus Rex of Sophocles, live from the theatres

Sophocles / Antigone
ANTIGONE performed at Covent Garden Theatre, 1845

CREON IN ANTIGONE
ANTIGONE Creon

Sophocles / German / Bust
SOPHOCLES Athenian playwright

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