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A delight for classics lovers; EDINBURGH 2003.

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From: The Evening Standard (London, England)
Date: 20030807
Author:Halliburton, Rachel

Byline: RACHEL HALLIBURTON

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SOPHOCLES'S Oedipus Rex has been described as the most perfectly structured play ever written, yet it is worth - once in a while - asking exactly what the modern world can take from this story about a man who unwittingly kills his father and sleeps with his mother. For the ancient Greeks, obsessed with logic and the power of rationality, it was a potent investigation of how Fate could smash through humans' attempts to control the world around them - and Liz Lochhead brings such preoccupations bang up to date with a ...

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