He dreams himself into ancient Rome, where, now called Oedipus, he confronts real despots and real danger.

NEWYORKER: Roman Scandals

The ship starts out like Oedipus: admired, idolized, hailed as different, special, exalted.

NEWYORKER: Unsinkable

To Bettelheim, a Freudian, the most important conflict was the Oedipus complex.

NEWYORKER: Once Upon a Time

' And if we spoke of Oedipus killing his dad and marrying his mom, that just wouldn't sound like something worth poking your eyes out over.

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Mr. TRAINOR: (Singing) This here's the story about Oedipus Rex.

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The story deals with a retelling of the Oedipus myth, music, talking cats, ghosts, Colonel Sanders, the danger of living in the past, and trying to live in the present.

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Ms. PROSE: Yeah, King Lear and Oedipus Rex.

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In form, the movie is a detective story, but we watch with increasing apprehensiveness as it dawns on us that Pharaon might be a kind of sluggish Oedipus, a sleuth who uncovers the traces of a crime that he has committed himself.

NEWYORKER: Humanit��

Seems its current productions don't create the excitement that they did in the halcyon days when Laurence Olivier managed a tour-de-force double bill, playing a fop in Sheridan's The Rivals only to return a half an hour later to do the lead in Oedipus Rex.

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That bill includes "Cave of the Heart" (1946, to Samuel Barber's "Medea"), a four-dancer distillation of the myth of Jason and Medea, and "Night Journey" (1947, to a William Schumann commission), a flashback view of an anguished Jocasta and her incestuous relationship with Oedipus, her son.

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