Word: oedipuses
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...George Riddle--is it by direct interposition of Divine Providence, or, more likely, of Pallas Athene?--the distinguished actor who first made his reputation as Oedipus Rex, which he played in the Greek of Sophocles at Sanders Theatre in 1881, a nationally notable event, and now retired from the stage, is living in Cambridge. He coached the student players. They have confided to me in strict confidence, which I never would dream of violating, that while members of the Department of Classics were anxiously consulting about the correct syllabic "quantities" of verse readings (after the manner of their so pronounced...
...taste. In fact, he has broken radically with Freud, though he is still euphemistically known as a "Freudian revisionist." Freud saw man as the prisoner of his primitive drives; Fromm thinks he can be infinitely shaped by society. Freud thought every life was blighted by the childhood Oedipus complex; Fromm sees nothing worse in childhood than a healthy rebellion against parental authority. Fromm finds Marx much more congenial than Freud because he promises so much more, once the socialist millennium has arrived: a free and unfettered individual, brimful of love and "productivity." Writes Fromm: "Marx had an unbroken faith...
...love and hate are often slow to change. Exploring the life of one Englishman so smitten, Scott has turned out a strange novel, the kind of far-flung romantic British tale that might have been accused of Maughamism if its hero did not suffer so monumentally from an Oedipus complex. The lady in question is not his parent, who died when he was four, but Mother India...
...Chester A. Arthur School is the kind of poverty-ridden slum where more than 40% of the people are on relief and illegitimacy is common. Yet last week some of the area's most "hopeless" youngsters aged eight to twelve, put on a boffo production of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex in the Yeats translation. They had already staged Cocteau's Orphee at their 60-seat Philadelphia Theater for Children, an abandoned slum building. Equally adept at Shakespeare, the kids cheerily greeted each other with "What ho, varlet?" and "How now, spirit! Whither wander you?" The force behind...
...composer's grandson, Wieland Wagner, had staged a new Tristan at Bayreuth in 1952, and Brother Wolfgang tried his hand at it in 1957, but neither version satisfied Wieland. As he planned the opera in this year's production, it became "yet another aspect of the ancient Oedipus drama, with its eternal correlation between Love and Hate, Death and Eternity, Father and Son." The most startling changes in Wieland's Tristan: 1) Isolde does not die at the final curtain, and 2) King Marke strangely becomes Tristan's father instead of his uncle...