A Student Edition with a full commentary, plot synopsis, review of the play in performance, chronology, notes on individual words and phrases and questions for further studyA set text for the WJEC Drama and Theatre GCE 2007 (Module: Texts in Context); WJEC English Literature GCE 2009 (Module: Shakespeare and Poetry in Context); and CCEA English Literature GCE (Module: Drama)Timed to coincide with a new production of Oedipus the King at the National Theatre, with Ralph Fiennes in the lead role, which will then tour in autumn 2008The perfect edition for students of Drama, Literature and Classics, featuring introductory and study materialPresented in Don Taylor's acclaimed translation that has a timeless appeal and was made for a BBC TV production of the Theban Plays in 1986

Sophocles (496-406 BC) lived through the greater part of the long struggle with Sparta and died a few months after Euripides. He is credited with developing the tragic form and his surviving tragedies are masterpieces of construction. Methuen Drama publishes two volumes of his plays.