Edited by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, 1910
In Sophocles’ drama, King Oedipus rules over Thebes. When the city is threatened by a plague, he desperately searches for the culprit. In his search, he uncovers a terrible secret: he himself has killed his father and unknowingly married his mother. The tragedy shows how the human quest for truth and control meets with inescapable fate.