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Oedipus at Colonus / by Sophocles ; translation by Peter D. Arnott ; Macmillan Films.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sophocles. Oedipus at Colonus--Film adaptations.
- Sophocles.
- Oedipus (Greek mythological figure)--Drama.
- Oedipus.
- Puppet plays.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Puppet films.
- Tragedies (Drama)
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (103 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- Old Greenwich, CT : Macmillan Films, 2023.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- Join us for a staging of Peter Arnott's translation of "Oedipus at Colonus" - the middle play in Sophocles' Theban Trilogy. Sophocles returns to his most famous character Oedipus - transforming him from an exiled immigrant to a suppliant who bestows gifts on legendary King Theseus and Athens. Peter's line-by-line translation, complete with all the chorus odes, gives the fullest emersion to this masterpiece about redemption, immigration, truth, murder and death. Written late in Sophocles' life, "Oedipus at Colonus" benefits from a long life of accumulated wisdom, and perhaps explains why it is consider the crowning achievement of Greek drama.
- Participant:
- Voiced by James Thomas, Alanah Raffery, Mary Murphy ; puppetry by James Thomas.
- Notes:
- Title from title screen (viewed May 22, 2023).
- OCLC:
- 1381040682
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