OEdipus

Seneca, perhaps to check the seeds of vice in Nero, his pupil, to whom incest and blood were afterwards so familiar [1], composed the Latin tragedy on the subject of OEdipus, which is alluded to by Dryden in the following preface.

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Sophocles, there is but one, OEdipus, which is wholly built after that model.

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Another is "Christopher Columbus," and he has just finished an important tragedy entitled "OEdipus," dealing artistically with a horrifying story, which has been accepted for early production by Mr. Robert Mantel.

A Short History of Pittsburgh Samuel Harden Church

(See Doran's "Their Majesties 'Servants," 1888 edition, i. 169-172; see also memoir at end of second volume.) [131.1] Creon (Dryden and Lee's "OEdipus"); Malignii (Porter's "Villain"); Machiavil (Lee's "Cæsar Borgia").

An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume I 1889

He collaborated with Dryden in 'OEdipus' (1679) and 'The Duke of Guise'

The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

He took part with Dryden in writing the very successful adaptation of 'OEdipus', produced in 1679, as an English

The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695

The catastrophe of the tragedy may be also censured, not only on the grounds objected to that of "OEdipus," but because it does not naturally flow from the preceding events, and opens, in the fifth act,

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Thus, of late years, Corneille writ an "OEdipus" after Sophocles; and I have designed one after him, which I wrote with Mr Lee; yet neither the

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"OEdipus" there cannot properly be said to be two actions, because the love of Adrastus and Eurydice has a necessary dependence on the principal design into which it is woven.

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The same artifice is used in "OEdipus," vol.vi. p. 149. to impress, by a description of the feelings of the unfortunate pair towards each other, a presentiment of their fatal relationship.

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