This is a long shot, since I've searched the Internet already, but does anyone know of a filmed version of Sophocles' Oedipus the King (Oedipus Rex) that uses the Bernard Knox translation? I've found a series of educational tapes (Massachusetts Council for the Humanities, in 1958 or 1959) that use excerpts of the Knox version, but not an entire production.
Knox's translation is the most accessible, most colloquial and dynamic translation for use with regularly-tracked high school students, in my opinion.
2006-08-08 06:53:41 · 4 answers · asked by mistersato 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Theater & Acting
Sorry, sounds like you've done the best you can do with the Knox translation. For better or worse I end up using the BBC "Theban Plays" version from 1984, with the Don Taylor translation. Very accessible and colloquial--maybe too much so, according to some critics, though it makes the play quite clear to students, IMO. Unfortunately, it's only available for purchase at a horrendous price through Films for the Humanities--something perhaps a library (especially college or university library) near you may have already done. Anyway, good luck with your search...thank goodness somebody's teaching Sophocles in high school!
ADDENDUM in reply to the learned answerer immediately following: interesting to hear that you're astonished that people still look to the ancient Greek writers. Can't speak for everyone in the USA (whiere I'm located) of course, but for those who pay attention, at least in drama, the Greek classics are essential. Given the state of the world now, even a handful of plays (such as Aeschylus "The Persians", Sophocles "Antigone", Euripides "The Trojan Women", Aristophanes "The Lysistrata") say more than most of what's being written today...
2006-08-08 10:03:15 · answer #1 · answered by zeebaneighba 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Oedipus The King Bernard Knox
2017-01-13 11:59:09 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hello dear!
I admire the sequence and aim of the classic Greek writers and I am astonished to understand that there are people who still are looking for the progress of humanity!
You are interested only for plays and translations in the English language?
2006-08-08 10:39:25 · answer #3 · answered by soubassakis 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The call of the play is Oedipus the King. in case you have in no way examine it, be waiting for the super zany suprise ending... quite who he has a element for! Its loopy, snigger-a-minute stuff! BTW-MR. crimson Flag is a dumbass. You mentioned implicitly which you have been attempting to look it up.
2016-11-04 03:32:57 · answer #4 · answered by filonuk 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋