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Just to get the ball rolling and be provocative (Hi Macumbeira), here is a discussion-starter.
Oresteia by Aeschylus
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
Medea by Euripides
Trojan Women by Euripides
King Lear
Hamlet
Othello
Macbeth
Pygmalion by GBS
Waiting for Godot by Beckett Oedipus Rex Thersites in the Iliad The Cyclops in the Odyssey; Nausicaa in the Odyssey
Tiresias in Oedipus Rex of Sophocles and Antigone in Antigone of Sophocles
Euripides and Mnesilochus in Thesmophoria- zusae by Aristophanes
Xanthias in The Frogs by Aristophan ... ... Dangerous Affair. 303 pages. 2.2.09.
12. Stevenson, Robert Louis. Treasure Island. 303 pages. 2.4.09.*
13. Sophocles. Oedipus Rex. 37 pages. 2.9.09.+
14. Bryson, Bill. The Mother Tongue: English, and How it Got That Way. 245 pages. 2.12.09
15. Poe, Edgar Allan. Complete Poems. 125 ... ... of the Ants
851 Inferno
853 Cosmicomics
863 One Hundred Years of Solitude
873 The Golden Ass
882 Oedipus Rex
883 The Iliad
884 Sappho: A New Translation
891 We
892 Gilgamesh (added 5/26)
Missing 100s: none!
... Works of William Shakespeare
France – Candide Voltaire
Germany – The Tin Drum Gunter Grass
Greece – Oedipus Rex Sophocles
Greenland – Smilla’s Sense of Snow Peter Hoeg
Haiti – The Serpent and the Rainbow Wade Davis
Hungary - George Lang's Cuisine ... ... Earth. 291 pages. 3.24.09.
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1. Glaspell, Susan. Trifles. 48 pages. 1.29.09
2. Sophocles. Oedipus Rex. 37 pages. 2.9.09
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1. Robinson, Ray (ed). Famous Last Words: Fond Farewells, Deathbed Diatribes, and Exclama ... ... Earth. 291 pages. 3.24.09.
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1. Glaspell, Susan. Trifles. 48 pages. 1.29.09
2. Sophocles. Oedipus Rex. 37 pages. 2.9.09
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1. Robinson, Ray (ed). Famous Last Words: Fond Farewells, Deathbed Diatribes, and Exclama ... Hey Luxx. You have been reading some very interesting stuff. I have not read Oedipus Rex in a very long time and I think its time for a reread. A Nigerian writer, Ola Rotimi, rewrote Oedipus Rex for a Nigerian context called The Gods are not to blame. It is very well done and pretty much ... ...
I'm forgetting all those truly classical classics. But in addition to Antigone mentioned earlier, I remember Jocasta in Oedipus Rex and Ajax. For this week's class:
Oedipus Rex
Arrogant, quick-tempered, and proud, Oedipus thinks his ability to decipher riddles will save him and Thebes again, but instead it leads to his gruesome downfall. Yes, the Freud stuff is here, but that's by far not the most interesting part of this play. The ... ... would be wheeled out on a wagon/smaller stage piece called the ekkyklema if the scene called for it.
Glad you enjoyed Oedipus! Are you planning on reading the other Oedipus two plays as well?
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles.
Rereading - and teaching - Oedipus Rex as an adult was an interesting experience. While I am always a bit wary of translations, the text itself (as translated by Robert Fitzgerald) is rich with literary devices, and the use of foreshadowing is especially ... ... Hawkins, adventure, treasure, pirates and intrigue, Treasure Island is a treat for all ages.
13. Sophocles. Oedipus Rex. 37 pages. 2.9.09.
Rereading - and teaching - Oedipus Rex as an adult was an interesting experience. While I am always a bit wary of translations, ... ... studied since I was an undergrad.
We have already covered Trifles (which was new to me), and next on our list is Oedipus the King.
We will also be covering Othello and Waiting for Godot (my favorite play), although I intend to go back to some of my Renaissance favorites ... ... The thing is, readers tend to either love or loathe it. I hope you love it, haha..
theaelizabet: Thanks a lot!
4. Oedipus Rex - Sophocles : Recounts a portion of the story of Oedipus, prince of Thebes, doomed at birth to kill his father and marry his mother. This was the first reading ... Does the United Kingdom still have a constitution? by Anthony Stephen King 875-899
875-881
882 Classical Greek Drama
~(882.01) Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
883 Classical Greek Epic Poetry and Fiction
~(883.01) Iliad by Homer
884-890
891 East Indo-European and Celtic
~(891.7313) The Shooting Party by Anton Chekhov
892-899
I read Oedipus Rex in ... We've read...
• Brave New World
• Rhinoceros
• Oedipus Rex
• The Stranger
• Heart of Darkness
mckait and amandameale--you are pushing for a re-write of Sophocles and Oedipus Rex. Hmmm---an updated version with a new setting and a few twists? We've got our three main characters! 20. A Doll's House
21. Oedipus Rex
I forgot about reading these plays. At first I thought I had read them in December, but then I found documentation (read: class notes) stating January, thus making them fair game.
I'd read the entire Oedipus Cycle in seventh grade, found them ... Oops, double post. ... The Sun Also Rises
- Of Mice and Men
- The Scarlet Letter
- The Awakening
- The Great Gatsby
- Antigone
- Oedipus Rex Actually I may have read this on my own, but we definitely discussed it when we read Antigone
- Things Fall Apart
My school also did something called Lit ... Funny you should mention blood and gore. I just finished Oedipus Rex. Oh well, even a blind man knows when the sun is shinin'...
Thanks. These Greek Plays and I'm sure Shakespeare as well, lend themselves to audiobooks. Im looking forward to listening to Shakespeare during my commute. The books were:
Death & Dying by Katherine Kubler-Ross
The Death of Ivan Ilych by Tolstoy
Oedipus Rexby Sophocles
The Hell was:
My first quarter of college in my English 101 course.
The Devil was:
A bitter old maid instructor who did not like middle aged ... ... by boethius,
Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes,
An essay concerning human understanding by John Locke,
oedipus rex by Sophocles,
the doors of perception by Aldous Huxley,
sweat jesus i need a rest.
Queer by Burroughs,
Revolutionary Road by ... ... ra
864 – Luminous Cities
869 – Saraminda: Black Desire in a Field of Gold
873 – The Fables of Avianus
882 - Oedipus Tyrannus
883 – The Odyssey
884 - Sappho: A Garland The Poems and Fragments of Sappho
888 – Five Great Dialogues
891 – The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
... ... Greek Lives
8. Plato, Republic
9. Aristophanes, Clouds
10. Plato, Apology, Crito and Phaedo
11. Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
12. Thucydides, Peloponnesian War
13. Plato, Symposium
14. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics and Politics
15. Lucretius, On the Nature of Things
16. A ... The other day I bought...
Abundance by Sena Jeter Naslund
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
And I received these in the mail (via Paperback Book Swap)...
The Corset Diaries by Katie MacAlister
The Poyson Garden by Karen Harper
Tulip ... ... class and found that any site which mentioned essays on the topics at hand, Plato's Apologia of Socrates and Oedipus Tyrannus were blocked. Go figure. Such naughty stuff. More textbooks:
From Max Weber
Oedipus Tyrannus, by Sophocles
Letters to a Young Poet, by Rainer Maria Rilke
The Shia Revival, by Vali Nasr
Democracy in America, Volume 2, by Alexis de Tocqueville ... I didn't buy it at the time, because it was a bestseller (wrong reason, put right after four decades);
Koning Oidipous (=Oedipus the King) by Sophokles in Evert Straat's Dutch translation. ... Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
Jane Eyre
The Member of the Wedding
Romeo and Juliet
The Robe
Oedipus Rex
Oedipus the King
Antigone
Rebecca
The Great Gatsby
A Farewell to Arms
Lost Horizon
Brave New World
The Things They Carried
O Pioneers
The Picture ... ... ding
3. Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
4. Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood, Koren Zailckas
5. Oedipus Rex, Sophocles
6. The Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Eugenides
7. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
8. Chasing Cezanne, Peter Mayle
9. ... ... to do a lot of wider reading, and given a list about 70 titles long. I think I read all of them.
At A level, I recall: Oedipus The King, The Heart of the Matter, The Taming of the Shrew, The French Lieutenant's Woman, Great Expectations, collected poems of Thomas Hardy, Tess of ...
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