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From: The Scotsman
Date: 20061209
Author:Jim Gilchrist

WHAT WOULD FREUD HAVE done without Sophocles? Two and a half millennia on, the Greek playwright's tale of the man who married his mother inspired Meister Sigmund to enshrine the Oedipus complex within his theories of psychoanalysis.

Tomorrow night in The Thebans Evening (6:30pm), Radio 3 devotes four hours to Sophocles's triumvirate of Oedipus Tyrannos, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone, in a powerful adaptation for radio by Timberlake Wertenbaker (an American, who was raised in the French Basque country and has lived in Greece). First performed, to some acclaim, by the Royal Shakespeare ...

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