Word: oedipus
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...think that the Harvard students made a very creditable mob of Thebans", said Sir John Martin-Harvey to a CRIMSON reporter on Monday night after the first performance of "Oedipus Rex" at the Boston Opera House. The noted British actor was resting after his first appearance as Oedipus, king of Thebes in this classic tragedy of Sophocles, which was produced for the first time on Monday evening...
When interviewed on Monday evening, Sir John was sitting in his dressing room, dabbing the last traces of make up from his face, and discussing the performances of the various Thebans mobs with which he has performed "Oedipus...
...doubt if there was so large a mob in the play 2000 years ago as in the modern version. When 'Oedipus Rex' was given in the Dionysian Theatre at Athens, where the play was originally produced the performances were given in a huge ampitheatre before an audience of some 19,000. In so large an ampitheatre, before so large an audience, the play was necessarily produced on a large scale. Yet even so I doubt if they had a mob as large as ours was this evening. This idea of a thundering mob and howling hundreds is pretty much...
...great classic play can be enjoyed. I don't want just the highly educated to come to this play; I want the great public,--the man in the street. It has its appeal not only to the boxes but to what we call in England the pits and galleries. 'Oedipus Rex' is the greatest play ever written,--and, incidentally it has in it the greatest part...
...even greater than Hamlet, although it is very difficult to compare the two. It depends very much on the temperament of the actor. My own tends toward the Greek drama. The character of Hamlet is greater in scope than that of Oedipus; its philosophy is more profound and infinitely more intricate. The character of Oedipus is less complicated, less subtle. It is simple and straightforward, and for that very reason Sophocles has made it more impressive in the vastness of its emotions...