The Theban Plays
Cover mockup.
The Theban Plays
Oedipus searches for the murderer of the old king of Thebes and finds that he is the man; the other two plays follow the blind Oedipus to Colonus and his daughter Antigone to her death for burying her brother.
- Availability
- Available for delivery beginning June 2027.
- Often read in
- Grades 9–11
- First published
- c. 441–401 BC (first performed)
- This edition
- Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone, in Francis Storr’s verse translation; his arguments and notes are left out.
- Pages
- 168
- Prompts
- 3, one at the close of each play
From the book
A prompt from this edition.
Every play of the Commonplace Edition closes with a prompt.
Commonplace
The herdsman says, “I stand upon the perilous edge of speech,” and Oedipus answers, “And I of hearing, but I still must hear.” Earlier he told Jocasta, “I must probe this matter home.” What is he after by now, the killer of Laius or himself? Underline where he names it, from Jocasta’s plea to the herdsman’s answer.
The book
Made like the printed Frankenstein
This title is set on the same page and made to the same specification as the printed Frankenstein.
- Size7 × 10 inches
- Pages168
- BindingSewn in signatures, square back, cloth over 3 mm board
- CoverForest green book cloth, stamped in gold foil and blind
- PaperCream, uncoated, 120 gsm (about 81 lb text)
- EndpapersPrinted, on 180 gsm stock
- RibbonPale gold marker
- The pageSet in EB Garamond at 11 on 15 points, with a ruled column in the outer margin, a rule beside every line, and a line number every fifth line
- Prompts3, one at the close of each play
- MadeDesigned and typeset in Sagamore Hills, Ohio
Grades 9–11