In the film Oedipus the King produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company we are presented with a modernistic adaptation of Sophocles' classic Greek tragedy. A Greek tragedy essentially consists of the story of something terrible happening to a person of noble stature, such as Oedipus who is a prince and a king. Oedipus Rex is considered to be one of the greatest masterpieces to emerge from the period when Greek drama was dominant. Oedipus' popularity was not only restricted to the Ancient Greeks but also continued to receive time on the stage as the centuries continued to pass by, even up to the present day. This in a sense took part in breaking a tradition, because plays in Greece were more or less restricted to one performance, but later the Greeks came to appreciate the classic works, and the most popular would be revived, one of which was Oed....

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