Word: oedipus
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Greek tragedy used to be inaccessible to the American temperament. In a play like Oedipus, for example, it was felt that the punishment of the hero was horrifyingly in excess of his crime, and that too much of the action rested with the will of the gods and too little within the control of the man. In the past decade, public events have brought home to Americans a growing awareness that fate may not be in one's hands but at one's throat. The dirgelike destiny of the Kennedys, the war in Viet Nam, racial turmoil, urban...
...theater is that U.S. stages are likely to carry a far higher traffic of classic Greek tragedies in the '70s than they ever have before. Some of these will be presented unmodified in fresh and colloquial translations. Others, like the new off-off-Broadway Roundabout Theater production of Oedipus, will alter the text in order to link it more closely to contemporary minds, sensibilities and responses. It is important to note that the playwright, Anthony Sloan, a pseudonym adopted by the Roundabout's artistic director, Gene Feist, has not tampered with the basic myth. Oedipus has murdered...
...Oedipus Complex lurks in many old times. Two of these-"Welcome Home" and "That's What Mama Say"-were by the same singer. What was his name...
...astute reader may not need to be told about the Oedipus complex, but may need to know that "the Ashes" is a term given to the five-match series between England and Australia for world supremacy in cricket. * Excerpt: "Fantong refilled two glasses with double whiskeys the colour of her skin. The doctor remembered that in his house the Commissioner's Marie was waiting-for nothing; after Fantong there was nothing left he could give to any woman...
...home-town high school, a teacher was castigated for recommending Salinger's celebrated Catcher in the Rye as the basis of a book report. And a department head in southern Maine refused to allow Sophocles' Oedipus Rex to be taught...