Getting Away From The Dark Side: Oedipus and Hamlet

One of the best commentaries on Sophocles’ hero, Oedipus, and the Vision of the play can be found in the Penguin Classics reprint: SOPHOCLES. The Three Theban Plays:  Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus.  The fabulous translation of these works by Robert Fagles has none of the self-conscious ‘classicism’ and ‘Ancient’ staginess of so many others.