An ambitious new book sees hidden currents linking writers as disparate as Colette, Thomas Mann, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia ...

As Sophocles' Oedipus the King begins, the people of Thebes are begging the king for help, begging him to discover the cause of the plague. Oedipus stands before them and swears to find the root ...

How to stay with this painful stirring? In Freud, the artist always did this best, somehow working at the limit of repression ...

A curse has taken a hold of Thebes. Oedipus is the current King of Thebes, having solved the riddle of the Sphinx, and is determined to help the people. He married Jocasta, Queen of Thebes and has ...

That talk has now been collected in a short book, published in September ... of this in all of western literature: the scene ...

In the corner of the wide white anonymous modern room that comprises the set of Robert Icke’s free adaptation of Oedipus Rex, a digital clock ticks down the seconds to zero. It’s a trick Icke ...

That book blends fact and fiction to tell the story ... including "King Lear," "Oedipus Rex," a smattering of Ibsen, psychiatric papers and the journals of his late wife. It's this last item ...

He also interprets several popular films, such as 300 and Nero, and analyzes works by international directors, among them Pier Paolo Pasolini (Oedipus Rex, Medea), Jean Cocteau ... and Spike Lee ...

Stage West: Suddenly Last Summer (with Kim Hunter); Ivoryton: Prelude to a Kiss, Bell, Book and Candle and On Golden Pond; Mendelssohn: Oedipus Rex, The Daughter-in-Law; Power Center: Waiting for ...