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Sophocles' 'Oedipus the King.'.

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From: The Explicator
Date: 19990101
Author:Cox, Michael W.

Sophocles had not used recognition and reversal, two aspects of the classical Greek tragedy, solely with the protagonist of his play 'Oedipus the King,' but also on Oedipus' mother, Jocasta. The latter's guilt-ridden grief for the supposed murder of her infant son and her blaming of her husband for the infanticide, turned into grief when she discovered that the prophecy she had long dismissed as untrue had in fact occurred. Her husband had been slain by their own son who was none other than Oedipus.

In Oedipus the King, on three occasions Jocasta speaks of her first husband - Laius, the ...

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